Gary’s Blog

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a quiet partner in the work teachers do every day. While much of the conversation focuses on collaborative, whole‑school adoption, the reality is that many educators are using AI individually—experimenting on their own, testing tools privately, and integrating them into their workflow long before formal policies or training appear. In Read More

In my work, I see lots of examples of people accepting what comes from AI as true; we accept whatever it gives us with little effort to confirm it. We should be concerned about this, except for the fact that humans have a very long history of accepting information as correct from sources without any Read More

A post for students in network security class: ARP spoofing is a powerful technique used by hackers to intercept and view unencrypted web traffic on a local area network (LAN). This attack exploits a fundamental vulnerability in the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), which the internet uses to map a device’s IP address (where it is Read More

A blog post for students network security class: Deepfakes represent a modern frontier of digital deception, consisting of counterfeit images, videos, or sounds generated through machine learning algorithms. While these tools can be used for entertainment, they are increasingly weaponized by hackers as social engineering techniques to psychologically influence human behavior. By using technology to Read More

Many high schools, including vocational or trade high schools, offer a range of computer science, digital media, or business applications courses. The specifics of these offerings depend on the history and popularity of the department and the nature of the local business community. If an art teacher is hired who has special skill in digital photography, for example, the school may offer a Read More

159: Multimedia in Schools Generations of students have created presentations using a series of programs that combine text, images, audio, and video (thus the “multi” in multimedia). Many trace the beginnings of this type of educational software to HyperCard and HyperStudio, programs that available were for Apple computers marketed in schools in the early 1990’s. Interest in multimedia grew when video cards, color displays, audio Read More