SOUTH AFRICA IGNORE EARLY WARNINGS OF CORONAVIRUS. A biggest failure of intelligence in our lifetime.

Our little information about intelligence community especially foreign counter intelligence is to alert the country about any possible dangers that can harm the country at large. We always thought we are safe given the structure of National Intelligence Agency (NIA) predecessor State Security Agency (SSA) which consist of domestic and foreign unit whose main roles … Continue reading SOUTH AFRICA IGNORE EARLY WARNINGS OF CORONAVIRUS. A biggest failure of intelligence in our lifetime.

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Musing over Topic 1: Online Participation & Digital Literacies

In the past weeks, I have begun dipping my toes into digital learning and collaboration. It’s still murky but I must say that it is less daunting now. The effort by the group (PBL13) – and the many people behind the scene tirelessly supporting us makes a world of difference. David White’s videos on digitalContinue reading “Musing over Topic 1: Online Participation & Digital Literacies”

On Teaching and Learning with Digital Tools in Computer Science

In the last five years, I started digitizing campus courses and developing new online courses to be exclusively given to industrial professionals. I worked on evolving the interaction with students in this new setting. Nowadays, after several finished instances, I realized that my teaching has evolved and I am adopting blended learning techniques throughout theContinue reading “On Teaching and Learning with Digital Tools in Computer Science”

Heikki and a little bit more about the work with Topic 1

Topic 1 dealt with digital literacies. A whole bunch of new, at least new for me, concepts were introduced and explained. The sense of being totally lost did diminish gradually, but did not disappear. This brave new world seems to be much more complicated as it seemed to be previously. Talks about meems, remixing, putting … Continue reading Heikki and a little bit more about the work with Topic 1