Review: Let’s Talk About Poop – “Hexcrement” (Tabletop)
Hexcrement is the game you pull from your shelves and play with abandonment and joy!! Very different to the methodical approach of dung beetles (in a good way)!
Review: ECOSYSTEM or ECOSYSTEM: CORAL REEF?
Both ECOSYSTEM and ECOSYSTEM: CORAL REEF are perfect tabletop games for science fans, but if you have to choose only one, which would you choose?
School Strike 4 Climate: What Would Kids Know
On Friday 15 March 2019, millions of students around the world participated in school strikes to speak out about climate change. If you believed the mainstream media news services and politicians, you would probably think the kids skipped school, yelled at the clouds, and then took off for a fast-food […]
Find Your Way With Moana In The Hour of Code
Last year, the Hour of Code Awakened with a Star Wars activity. The year before, kids were Frozen to their computers with coding and game development. In 2016, Disney has come to the party yet again; this time helping kids Wayfinding with code. Right now I should be typing up […]
Beat The Computers: Be Human
This post is part of a new series “If I Ran The People Zoo”, looking at the impact Artificial Intelligence will have on our spawnlings and their future. So the last post in this series was a bit of doom and gloom. I pretty much said your spawnlings are […]
Sydney Writer’s Festival
Sinister’s school class had an excursion yesterday. All the way over to the Sydney Writer’s Festival. His teacher was rather considerate and even gave us a list of writers appearing on the day, including Liz Pichon. For those minions who do not have pre-teen spawnlings reading and doodling all over […]
Sinister Cleans Up – DIY Terrarium
Sinister is starting off his school year by creating his own world to command and conquer. I like this teacher already. Sinister is in Year 5 OC (Opportunity Class – like a Gifted program in the public school system). In Science they are studying Space – Significant astronomers; Creation of […]
Forensic Fridays: The Spawnlings Are Taking Over
I know, I know. Forensic Fridays took a weeeeeee holiday of late. However, they are starting up again. And mostly because of Sinister (now 9yo). We have returned to school (in fact, we are Week 3, I think), and already the EG-spawnling has received a rather hefty assignment (more on his […]
Hour of Code 2015: Minecraft
This is EG Inc’s first time participating in the Hour of Code. So why are we doing it? Because I’m curious. And why not?
When the teacher is ‘Wrong’ and the student is ‘Right’
Last week, I was asked to be an escort on Sinister’s school excursion to a Marine Education Centre. After laughing long and hard about the idea of ME being a ‘responsible, supervising parent’ – I accepted. I can’t guarantee that I’ll ever be invited again. Considering how it ended, that […]