Computer Science Teacher

My friend Pat Yongpradit has a post on LinkedIn that got me thinking. It starts with a key statement “Computer programming (coding) is not ...

The last few years have seen a huge expansion in the number and types of cyber security courses in high schools. Much of this has been drive...

Day two starts with sessions for ALL attendees. I started proctoring a session called Classroom To Career – CS Curriculum With a Purpose. T...

tl;dr Book recommendations: Overnight Code: The Life of Raye Montague, the Woman Who Revolutionized Naval Engineering Code Girls: The Untol...

We often underestimate the difference that small things can make. When I was in high school all I could afford was a cheap plastic slide rul...

For me, teaching is all about the concepts. Programming languages change. My first programming language was FORTRAN. This was the big langua...

There is more computer science than we could ever cover in grades K-12. So much of it is important and exciting. Every parent open house I g...

I first started to appreciate the cost of professional development when I was working with and for Microsoft. Microsoft at the time was work...

One of the things I tell students is that computer science is relevant to a lot of careers that they may not think of at first. An announcem...

Contrary to popular opinion I did not do it for the free t-shirt. Certaport was offering teachers at the CSTA Conference the opportunity to ...

A bunch of years ago I read an op-ed piece in one of the news magazines. I forget the one but the piece itself has stuck with me for years. ...

One of the big topics around computer science education is the shortage of teachers with enough CS knowledge to properly teach the subject. ...

Computer Science cheating has been a discussion lately. Not just in the NY Times article I referenced the other day ( Cheating In Computer ...

Students 2 Business (S2B for short) is "a Microsoft® Community Initiative designed to connect Microsoft partners and customers wit...