Drew's Blog

I'm writing this on August 19, 2014. John Cotton Dana was born on August 19, 1856 in Woodstock, Vermont. I looked him up after I cam...

For many years now, Economics has been known as the " dismal science ". So, who better than a (Canadian) economist to deliver a ...

Bill Gates is the well known founder of Microsoft. I'm not a fan of Bill nor of Microsoft. I am an advocate for "open source...

I got the exciting news today that the son of my wife's daughter (which modulo the complications of 2nd marriages would make him my Gra...

Linus Torvalds in this less than 3 minute video clip gives a great answer to a question about teaching children how to write computer code....

1980 In the Introduction talk to Udacity CS101 , Professor Evans mentions Steve Jobs having compared computers to "bicycles for the mi...

My Master's degree My MSE is from U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor. As I previously explained in a STEM post, I was there in a program spons...

My hopeless backlog One of the bad habits I have is accumulating lists of things to read. Google Reader used to be a handy place to cate...

Say What? News photo of an experimental self-driving Volvo from Engadget report . Computer procesors show up almost everywhere these da...

Preview image from us.123rf.com, "Collective Problem Solving", copyright Stanislav Komogorov A young friend of mine, a first year...

There's an old warning that you should be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it. Here's an article from the Sla...

Ken Robinson surely must earn a lot of air miles giving talks at TED conferences. Here's another one, from fairly recently. May 2013...

If you have been a regular reader of this blog and have a long memory, you may recall that back in December of 2012, in my article " I...

Several times now I've come across mentions of "Pseudoteaching" in my reading, and I confess to not quite grokking what that ...

A few months ago, in response to one of my "education" tagged blog posts, an old friend from high school contacted me via Faceboo...

Another interesting TED talk on the future of education. The speaker is Seth Godin . The question is "What is school for?". h...

Can/Should computers replace teachers? It is clear to me that computers are not capable at this time of eliminating the role of teachers. ...

As a person who enjoys reading, I'm heartened to see that interesting material about Education isn't limited to video's (e.g. T...