I just made an announcement on Twitter on something I’ve been doing for a while. Something I’d love more people with the same privilege as I enjoy doing: Standing offer to any event: instead of paying me to speak, I…
Teaching people to think about code instead of acing a test
One of my biggest bugbears with education, learning and teaching – especially online – is the focus we have on testing people by giving them multiple choice questions or having them fill out a very specific and rigidly defined test.…
Let’s explain the “why” instead of the “how”
One thing that bugs me a lot is that in the publishing world about the web we have a fetish for the “how” whereas we should strive for the “why” instead. What do I mean by that? Well, first of…