Uncategorized Our Kodak Moment 29 Nov 2020 Steve Sasson had a brilliant idea. He started with a movie camera lens. He added an array of capacitors, a basic processor, and a cassette tape recorder. After hooking up…
Uncategorized Attendentes Potentia Est 18 Nov 2020 Francis Bacon is said to have coined the phrase "knowledge is power," though it doesn't appear in any of his writings. Thomas Hobbes used the phrase in the mid-1600s, and…
Uncategorized Grading and Attendance 6 Aug 2020 For years, we've been struggling with the idea of grades. If a student gets a "B" in seventh grade science, what does that mean? When I was teaching (back in…
Uncategorized We’re Not Going Back 13 Jul 202013 Jul 2020 It's time to face reality: school is not going back to "normal" any time soon. There are a lot of factors at play here. But looking at the reality of…
Uncategorized Five to Seven Years 24 Jun 202016 Jun 2020 Twenty-one years is a long time. I wore a pager to the interview because we were expecting a baby any time. That child is entering her senior year of college…
Uncategorized Puzzle Pieces 10 Jun 2020 My wife and I have been doing jigsaw puzzles lately. In April, we finished a puzzle that had been languishing in its barely-started state for years. Then, we moved on…
