This is an interesting article. If Daniel Kahneman’s ‘dual-process’ theory is correct, it could be a useful way to think about technology education (and maybe even education in general). Maybe what teachers should be consciously focusing on is helping students develop their ability to access and us...

This OS X command line tool is very handy. Every time I need it though I have to google it to remember what it’s called. So, I’m making a blog post to remind myself. Hopefully it will be useful to others who happen across this post.

> sips -Z 200 *.jpg

The -Z tells to utility to maintain aspect...

On the Wildness of Children. I’m not sure ‘unschooling’ is the answer but the more time I spend working in schools the more I am convinced that a greater proportion of the school day should be devoted to free play and exploration. I can imagine a school that would strike a better balance between tr...

My son is in a bit of a Trolls phase. Favorite movie. Favorite song (I got this feelin’ inside my bones…). Troll figurines. Etc. He wanted to make troll pods like the trolls live in in the movie. We decided to make them via a papier maché process. Step 1: make a frame out of wire and cardboard.

St...

I’m teaching an intro to Python elective this trimester. The students are learning the basics via the Codecademy intro course and then they get to try programming a robot arm. I used an ArmUno 2.0 kit from Microbot Labs, a Hummingbird Bit from Birdbrain Tech, and the bitPython library. This is...

Thank you to everyone who attended my session on Saturday! Here is my presentation:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1D33EL5hdIzMDW1m14uZo_RTTsIGlwb1NamM0ZDxJ0Ug/edit?usp=sharing