Gary’s Blog

If you have read recent posts, you will know I have connected with a book written before I was born about the nature of science. In this final post, I continue to reflect on the fact that science depends on two types of knowledge, but that is often ignored in most descriptions of science. Nash Read More

Science is a relatively recent human endeavor. I will state I am unequivocally a fan of science. I studied it seriously as an undergraduate student and investigated various methods of doing it as graduate student. I am ashamed that we have political leaders who bash science, the people who do it, and the lessons we Read More

I’m always interested in the idea of becoming educated. What exactly happens when we have truly learned something? This idea is opposed by other things that we conflate with learning. Inert learning is the opposite of what is learning to me, and we are all familiar with this as we forget what was on the Read More

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