Challenges Discipling Technical Children: I closed my last blog by introducing the different kinds of learners and specifically highlighted kinesthetic or tactile learners. In this post, I will explore some of the challenges technical children have with standard discipleship techniques. Learning styles might be a new concept for you, as the theory of learning styles wasn’t something I was taught growing up. However, a few years ago, my Robotics club decided they wanted to do a research...

Part1: Introduction If you are new to my blog, I thought I’d take a minute to introduce myself. I have been a professing Christian for most of my life, and I’m here sharing insights from God’s word. I’ve gained through my faith journey as someone who’s always been immersed in technology. In college, I met my wife of 29 years and remember the thrill of email, a new and marvelous way to communicate over summer breaks. That love of technology and my wife’s support became an extensive career...

Over the summer, it seemed like falling reading and math scores in the country came up daily in my social media feed. U.S. reading and math scores drop to lowest level in decades Illinois test scores highlight pandemic fallout with declines in math, reading Iowa’s test scores for 4th and 8th graders decline across the board The headlines go on and on. We all know that the pandemic seriously impacted students’ academic achievement in many ways, but are other factors causing the record slump in...