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Putin’s War – There is No Place for Violence in a Modern World

Posted on April 6, 2022
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Yesterday, watching a special presentation of Mr. Zelinskyy’s comedy show Servant of the People (on Vision TV Tuesday to Thursday at 10:00 PM or streaming on VisionTV.ca and Netflix). Lyn and I lamented at the stark differences in Kyiv then and now. Though life imitates art in this case, Putin...Read more

Robot First Aid Day – with Celt-X (FRC 5406)

Posted on March 2, 2020
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Many thanks to the Celt-X for their hospitality on Sunday, March 1, 2020 – they hosted a first aid day to help First Robotics teams with ailing robots. Ours was a controller problem with the Spark MAX controllers (we have not used them before) and we were able to get this...Read more

Ten teaching tips from EdX

Posted on August 22, 2019
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Posted on August 21, 2019
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The bull’s eye diagram certainly generates discussion: comfort zone: the student can already do the target learning tasks without help; panic zone: the student cannot do the target learning tasks; and learning zone: (aka. Vygotsky’s zone of proximal development) the student can do the target learning tasks with help. First,...Read more