Computer Science Teacher

I’ve had my students working on a little exercise this week. It’s simple and I know that a lot of teachers use similar projects. The idea is...

Code.org announced a set of videos about “ How the Internet works .” today. This set of short (6-7 minutes long) videos explain many of the...

Still a lot of news going on about New York City's plans as well as other places also looking at adding more computer science education....

How many times have we heard it said “with great power comes great responsibility.” Have you read about the scandal with Volkswagen where th...

Curious about the BBC MicroBit? There is a new web site about it that includes a virtual Micro:bit computer . There are tutorials and videos...

Lots of CS education news last week. New York City starts a ten year effort to get computer science education in everyone of the city’s 1700...

Last week Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced a $75 million commitment to increase their YouthSpark program to increase access to computer...

Yet another interesting curriculum program . This one a pilot program by the College Board. Versions of a service oriented curriculum for si...

I went into the other computer lab today to get some paper for my lab’s printer. The Advanced Placement Computer Science class was in there ...

New York is embarking on what may be the most ambitious effort to bring computer science education to all the students in a district in the ...

As a member of the CSTA Equity Committee I am please to pass along the announcement of our annual Faces of Computing Competition . In hon...

I found this on a mailing list last week. I haven’t looked to closely at it since we haven’t decided to go with AP CSP at my school yet but ...

Last week was fun. I have great students. One thing I did this week was to create a scaffold program for my Honors Programming students. Jus...

The other day I read about a new book in the works for teaching Boolean concepts to babies. Yes Babies. A computer scientist is writing a bo...

This is a new one to me but it looks interesting. I like that it runs down to grades lower than high school. In 2014, almost a million pa...

I found this on the Internet today via Twitter. It works. Well more or less. I can imagine cases where it might not but they include other...

Labor Day weekend in the US. A four day weekend and I am exhausted from it. Maybe I need to get back to school to rest up. OK not really but...

This is not your ordinary high school CS student prize. “Four winners will be selected annually and each will be awarded a $10,000 prize and...

It seems like I just got back from the 2015 CSTA Annual Conference but time marches on and the call for proposals for next summer’s conferen...

It’s that time again! Visit the website at https://www.aspirations.org/ for more information but I have included some details to get you th...