There’s a term flying around that really gets my goat, to put it like a Nancy Drew character. “Digital native” purports to describe a young person who has grown up surrounded by digital technology. It is a dangerous, grossly misleading term that needs to be nuked from orbit if we ever hope to move forward [...] Keep Reading

i wrote an article earlier this week about a 9-year-old app developer from Brampton. Now, my friend Jason has writen an article about teaching logic concepts to babies, presumably just to link-bait me. :) Okay … now maybe some newly-educated can teach it to ME? In the TEDx talk i gave with my daughter Cassandra, [...] Keep Reading

It was exciting to see this video rocket to four million views in the course of a couple of days, but it earned every single view it got: The video echoed the sentiment i expressed in the TEDx talk i did with my daughter last fall, a sentiment which i in turn borrowed from a [...] Keep Reading

For some people in the video game industry, this is where the debate about games-as-art will be tried in the court of public opinion. Until today, indie game developer David S. Gallant was a part-time customer service rep in a Canada Revenue Agency call centre. David did not enjoy his job, and wanted to make [...] Keep Reading

This is the final collection of anecdotes about my trying times between graduating from a completely useless accelerated animation program at a community college, and trying to find work with a crummy demo reel. Reeling From It – Part 1 In which Ryan gets booted from school for cutting his demo reel Reeling From It [...] Keep Reading