andrew on February 25th, 2008

The girls were very excited this morning for their first day of school. They seemed happy and confident as the went into their classrooms.

They both think it is pretty cool to have such smart uniforms to wear. For now, you’ll just have to imagine River wearing a shirt and tie under her sweater. [...]

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andrew on February 23rd, 2008

Our lives are about to change dramatically: River and Sage will begin attending school at Foremarke Hall on Monday.

We visited a couple of weeks ago and we were are impressed with the school. The teachers and facilities seemed wonderful and the students seemed to be happy. River and Sage had a “taster” day [...]

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andrew on September 27th, 2007

We made an icosahedron today out of bamboo canes. An icosahedron, for those of us whose geometry is a bit rusty, is a 20 sided polygon. Gamers, think d20. Our icosahedron was of the regular variety. See wikipedia for some examples of other varieties and a more complete definition.
Anyway, it was [...]

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andrew on May 4th, 2007

Tim O’Reilly has some interesting comments on education, especially regarding the impact of the freely available information.
You can listen to the podcast of this interview here:
Steve Hargadon: Tim O’Reilly on Web 2.0 and Education
“I think we’re in a lot of ways in a period of profound re-invention of education and how people get to learn [...]

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