The Genius of Wayne and Shuster

For several decades, the works of Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster highlighted Canadian comedy, first on radio and then on television.

They began on CBC radio during World War Two, and then made the leap to CBC Television in the 1950s, until the mid-1970s.
Their form of comedy, branded 'literary comedy,' was also featured on their record 76 appearances on the CBS top-rated Ed Sullivan show'.
My favourite sketches include:
1. 'Rinse the Blood of my Toga,’ (their debut on the CBS show in 1958), is a spoof of the 'Dragnet ' detective series,

Coding and Logical Thinking

As a retired teacher, I try to keep up with the trends in education. The main idea it has taught me is: ‘bandwagons’ come and ‘bandwagons’ go.

Today's topic: 'tech literacy.'
It seems that every school board, education ministry or country feels that it is lagging, and being left behind in tech literacy, so this time, the Brits have decided to do something about it.
Not long ago, schools were encouraged to make laptops available to each student, in an effort to get all of them computer literate. And then along came the iPad and other tablet successors, and the students would be using them to begin studying computers.
However, these efforts were usually introduced on a piecemeal basis, for certain grades in certain jurisdictions,