Gary’s Blog

Imagination is the ability to create “things” when they don’t exist. We envy imagination amongst children, and imaginative play is an activity that early childhood educators confirm is healthy for young children. It so healthy for their cognitive development, they many promote their programs as encouraging it. As children get older, we are less concerned Read More

I recently rediscovered a story from my teaching career decades ago. It was recalled in a paper written in the after 1990s while working on my master’s degree. The course was “Reading and Writing in the Content Areas,” and I was describing a situation in my grade 7 math classroom.  “Today in class, we started talking about triangles. I put on the Read More

a post for students in newtwork security class, I uploaded my notes about scareware to Co-pilot which wrote this post In the ever‑shifting landscape of cybersecurity threats, scareware stands out not because of its technical sophistication, but because of its psychological precision. Unlike stealthy malware that hides in the background, scareware bursts onto the screen Read More

a post for students in my community college course A modern computer is an incredibly complex system consisting of processors, memory, hard disks, network interfaces, and a myriad of other input/output devices. If every application programmer had to understand the intricate details of how all these hardware components work, no software would ever get written. Read More

a post for studentsin my operating system course at a community college A modern computer is a highly complex system consisting of processors, memory, disks, network interfaces, and a wide variety of input/output devices. If every application programmer had to understand the intricate, idiosyncratic details of how all these hardware components work, no software would Read More

In 1989, I was preparing to participate in a science curriculum project; actually, I was invited to chair the committee, but the curriculum coordinator decided it would be very unpopular to have a first-year teacher assume that role. I did reflect on the work the committee was going to undertake, and this post contains a Read More