by Amy LeForge | Nov 12, 2013 | Education
Want to get more kids into reading? Turn them on to writing. Writers are readers. And one of the best tools used to shape a person into a writer is the deadline. It’s why I’m a fan of National Novel Writing Month, known affectionately by its abbreviation: NaNoWriMo....
by Amy LeForge | Nov 9, 2013 | Education
As a person who grew up with techy parents, married a programmer, and now does a lot of technical stuff herself, this infographic was fascinating. Enjoy! Source: TopComputerScienceDegrees.com
by Amy LeForge | Nov 5, 2013 | Education
Have you ever taken an IQ test? I did it once when I enrolled for college, and again many years later. You find questions such as “what number comes next in this sequence?” and “which word is not like the others?” I’m sure the test has value in some capacity, but I...
by Amy LeForge | Nov 5, 2013 | Education
With rapidly growing support for using educational games as learning tools at home and in the classroom, the gaming industry has seen a boom in the demand for high quality educational games. Catering to this demand, there has been a great increase in the number of...
by Amy LeForge | Nov 4, 2013 | Education
I was a little surprised by the statistics in this particular infographic, Heroes. Had you asked me, I would have guessed that female participation in computer sciences was non-existent in the early days, and then rose slowly to today’s levels. Not so! See the...
by Amy LeForge | Oct 31, 2013 | Education
My son is an adult, a mature, responsible young man who makes me proud on a daily basis. That’s why it’s funny to think back and remember him as a spirited seven-year-old, a kid who would’ve played football, baseball, and Nintendo all day long, if given the chance....
