Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Debating drone strikes - what do you think?


In this month's Foreign Affairs magazine is a really good debate about the use and effectiveness of Drones, unmanned aircraft that have killed a number of suspected terrorists in the last few years.
See what you think:
http://www.foreignaffairs.com - why drones work
And the case against:
http://www.foreignaffairs.com - why drones fail

Monday, 10 June 2013

The Wave - calling all Y12 Historians

For Y12 Historians that have just watched The Wave (what a great film) and want to know more, there is a fabulous website about the films origins:
http://www.thewavehome.com/
Morton Rhue, an American novelist actually called Todd Strasser, wrote a novel based on the original 1969 experiment by the History teacher Ron Jones. Buy it from Amazon here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wave-Classroom-out-Control
And for those of you into German films based on psychological experiments, try this one:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Das-Experiment-DVD
And the other film I recommended on Friday:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Edukators-DVD