So, I was supposed to go to the US next week for FSE, but I am not. I am cancelling because of Trump. Why? On a philosophical note. There is a famous musical in the Netherlands about a famous resistance hero (that actually existed) called Soldaat van Oranje (Soldier of Orange) It is a typical story […]
My feminism is one of broken promises
I wrote most of this post before the elections, but I figured today was a good day to finalize and officially come out as a feminist. Because today, the biggest lie we all want to believe has been debunked. “Girls, if you work hard enough, you can achieve anything.” Turns out, you cannot. One of the reasons […]
A new skill means seeing new things
Something amazing happened to me recently! I started knitting again, something that I have not done for years! I used to really love knitting as a kid and a teenager even. I knitted sweaters for my neighbor’s baby and even sweaters, hats and scarfs for myself. Just asked my mom to find a picture of […]
Not all opinions
For all readers a bit less “in” the tech scene: an interesting thing happened in the last few days. First Paul Graham tweeted: If Trump wins, I'm joining the Resistance. — Paul Graham (@paulg) October 11, 2016 Understandably, people asked him to start by denouncing one of his partners, Peter Thiel, a known Trump supporter. […]
Coding, Reading, and Writing: Integrated Instruction in Written Language — Steven L. Tanimoto
Steven created a programming system called Kokopelli’s World, a programming system to teach children with a learning disability about coding and writing, at the same time! This system, based on Google Blokly, is aimed at children that have oral language ability and some reading ability, and had children play with Kokopelli’s world for 90 minutes […]
