Category: School

I attended the school Yarra Valley Grammer (then Yarra Valley Anglican School which I will refer to as “YV”) and completed year 12 in 1990. The school is currently in[...]

This post is about my latest idea for learning about computers. I posted it to my local LUG mailing list and received no responses. But I still think it’s a[...]

I’ve just attended a lecture about improving memory, mostly about mnemonic techniques. I’m not against learning techniques to improve memory and I think it’s good to teach kids a variety[...]

I think that a major deficiency in Computer Science degrees is the lack of sysadmin training. Version Control The first thing that needs to be added is the basics of[...]

I was asked for advice on whether children should have access to smart phones, it’s an issue that many people are discussing and seems worthy of a blog post. Claimed[...]

I previously wrote about the financial value of a university degree [1], my general conclusion is that the value is decreasing for most fields of employment that don’t have a[...]

I’ve read quite a few articles about the value of a degree. Most of them come from the US where the combination of increasing tuition fees and uncertain job market[...]

Sam Varghese has written an article that is very skeptical of the educational value of the OLPC project [1]. Are Laptops Any Good for Schools? Sam cites an article in[...]