Computer Science Teacher

Last week, Code.Org and others announced the Hour of Code to the world. Now backed by Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, LinkedIn, Mark Zucke...

In honor of CSEdWeek, CSTA’s Equity Committee will be hosting its annual poster competition "We Are the Faces of Computing".  T...

Play-I is a new start up using crowd funding to develop a pair of programmable robots for young students . I have a thing for robots. And ...

The first quarter at my school closed last Friday. The year seems to be flying by. I guess it is true what they say about time flying when y...

Some time ago I wrote a post on top CS education people to follow on Twitter. It was very objective as I took the people on my CS Educator T...

A recent article in the New York Times called “ I am Woman, Watch me Hack ” brought up an idea I hear expressed pretty regularly. The idea i...

I get email about posting things to my blog pretty regularly. Often the items have little or no relevance to my usual topics and I ignore th...

Windows 8.1 came out last week. I’ve updated one of my computers so far. Seems to go well so far. I’ll probably update the rest of my comput...

The deadline for session and workshop proposals for the 2014 CSTA conference on K-12 computer science education is November 15, 2013. In ad...

Over the years I have gotten involved with a number of career technical schools in New England. Several in New Hampshire where I live and se...

The news came across my social media links that last year more students took the Advanced Placement Art History exam than took the AP Comput...

Last week was Leif Erikson Day . Today in the US we celebrate some Italian guy who came to North America later. So I have no school. I’ll ta...

There is no Nobel Prize in Computer Science. We do have the Turing Award which is as close as we get. It’s not as well known as the Nobel P...

When two related posts come though my screen at about the same time it always screams for me to write a blog post. That’s the case today as ...

This was posted to the CSTA announcement list. I don’t have first hand experience but I hear good things. Computer contests for high scho...

I’m staring off today with two other sets of links. Some good resource lists created by some friends of mine. Joe Kmoch has a great lis...

One of the things we like to say learning computer science in general and programming in particular leads to is learning problem solving. It...

A new competitive event for students via this announcement from the CSTA mailing list. >The Spirit of Innovation Challenge is an excel...

An announcement for Hadi Partovi, founder of code.org , about Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 9-15) and the Hour of Code initiative. ...

I’m a bit of a “flipped classroom” skeptic. Let’s just get that our of the way up front. But I want to get my thinking out there in hopes th...