Teachers should be looking for topics that students will find personally compelling and that students can connect to the out-of-school world (Tallman, 1998).

Playing – The increasing emergence of games as a mode of education leads to the inclusion of this term in the list. Students who successfully play or operate a game are showing understanding of process and task and application of skills.

Reverse-engineering – this is analogous with deconstruction. It is also related to cracking often with out the negative implications associated with this. Cracking – cracking requires the cracker to understand and operate the application or system being cracked, analyse its strengths and weaknesses and then exploit these.

provokes deep thought, lively discussion, sustained inquiry, and new understanding as well as more questions;

Drill and practice combined with highly scripted lessons stressing patterns and prescriptions amount to mental robbery - setting low standards for disadvantaged students so they end up incapable of thought or success on demanding tests.

You can delete Internet files and erase online profiles, but there is no hiding what you do where you go, and whom you talk to online, says Christopher Faulkner, a cyber security and online safety expert and CEO of CI Host, which calls itself the world's number 1 Web hosting company. Is it true that a lot of the people looking for an Internet trail are spying on a spouse or partner? There's a saying: Those who cheat never go to hell while those being cheated on are living in hell. I firmly believe that you should be informed even if that information comes from spying. What kind of trail is left behind? It can be the history files within an instant messenger program or your computer's Internet browser, or folders on your computer that store cookies which are small pieces of information used by Web sites to track your visits. You can even see what people search for on Google. What other kinds of trails are them? If you know the password to someone's e-mail account, you can look and see if there are gaps in the e-mail or if the e-mail has been moved to some other place on the computer. How can you find out for sure if your partner is cheating? You can download free programs like Keylogger, which runs in the background and records what is being typed on the keyboard. You can also install a piece of hardware called a dongle that plugs into the back of your computer. It will retold what someone is typing.

One in 10 UK employees believes "cyber bullying" is a problem in their workplace, research has revealed. The survey of 1,072 staff by the Dignity at Work Partnership found that one in five had been bullied at work by e-mail. Personnel Today, 26 July