People experience a variety of problems with USB-C. I’ve asked people online about their negative experiences with USB-C, and got a wide variety of responses, both on Twitter and on Mastodon. In addition to that, communities like r/UsbCHardware keep a lore of things that make some people’s experience with USB-C subpar. In engineering and hacking, there’s unspoken things we used to quietly consider as unviable. Having bidirectional power and high-speed data on a single port with thousands of peripherals, using nothing but a single data pin – if you’ve ever looked at a schematic for a proprietary docking connector attempting such a feat, you know that you’d find horrors beyond comprehension. For instance, MicroUSB’s ID pin quickly grew into a...
Toward the end of Tom Coughlin’s new memoir about Super Bowl XLII, when his New York Giants defeated the previously unbeaten New England Patriots in arguably the greatest upset in pro-football history, he recalls the immediate aftermath of that 17–14 victory. “The moments afterward are kind of a blur,” he writes. “The confetti rains down, you raise the Lombardi trophy at a midfield podium, and for the next few hours it’s like you’re in a dream world, being taken from one place to the next, carried along by your happiness. It took forever to get to the locker room; I never actually got the opportunity to give that one speech to all the guys where I could say, We are...
ShutterstockMany students are returning to school this year face a renewed focus on grammar. Just before Christmas, the NSW curriculum was overhauled to include the “explicit teaching of grammar, sentence structure and punctuation in high school”. This comes amid concerns about literacy levels, particularly among teenage boys. Last month, a major Productivity Commission report on schools also criticised nationwide literacy (and numeracy) standards. With so many online tools now available to help us write, why is grammar still important? What is grammar? Grammar is the backbone of any language. We use the rules of grammar to structure words into sentences and sentences into longer speech and writing others can understand us. Grammar is the backbone of any language. Syd Wachs/Unsplash...
Reading and writing are two of the most important skills that a child can learn. They provide a foundation for future academic success, and they also help to develop cognitive skills. In this blog post, we will discuss the best way to get your child started in reading and writing. This blog post will offer tips on how to make these activities fun and engaging for your child, and also provide some helpful resources.1) Start with phonicsPhonics can be an effective and enjoyable way to help your child learn the building blocks of reading and writing. Phonics helps children recognize the sounds of letters by building phonemic awareness, which is the ability to identify and manipulate individual speech sounds. When...
Read-alouds are the perfect tool to teach almost anything to students! Using read-alouds to teach kindness is an easy way to add some social-emotional learning or character education into your lesson plans. I want to share 10 of my favorite read-alouds to teach kindness and some ideas for using them. 1. Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch What a great book to teach kindness and a read-aloud pick for February! A sweet story about how a little love can go a long way. I even loved this book so much that I made a book companion to pair with it! It has some low-prep comprehension and writing activities. Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch Book Companion This pack includes flapbooks, writing pages, comprehension activities,...
