a goal that is nothing less than making the world a better place

Written by David TrussNovember 27, 2010November 27, 2010 2 Comments

A friend of mine wrote to me last night. He asked, I am teaching a program called COAST – an outdoor education program for grade 10’s. One of the courses that I will be teaching in second semester, is Leadership and I immediately thought of you. I am wondering how you would structure a course […]

Parenting in the digital age

Written by David TrussJune 27, 2010January 17, 2011 4 Comments

Three weeks ago I did a couple presentations to parents about Parenting In the Digital Age: This FREE workshop is for parents, both the tech savvy and the less technically inclined, who would like to develop family expectations around the use of technology to play, learn and connect. For this presentation I created a wiki: […]

“I’m a mop not a sponge”: Metaphors all the way down

Written by David TrussApril 19, 2008November 26, 2019

A well-known scientist once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the Earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got […]