Computer Science Teacher

Earlier this week I received email about several grants that SIGCSE has awarded. I think they look pretty interesting. I’m especially excite...

Day two started with a keynote by Stephen Reid about game playing in education. It was very interesting and he showed samples of a lot of g...

I’m in Denver for the Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert Forum this weekend. I’ve spent some time at these events in the past but those ti...

Summer is a time for me to think about how I want to teach better in the next school year. I’m always looking for ideas about this and recen...

Thanks to Channel 9 I found an interesting extension for Visual Studio called Better Comments . "Better Comments is a Visual Studio e...

I think my brain shut down when I left school last Monday to start the summer break. While I got a lot of personal business done last week m...

School is out for the summer! Well it is for me as of noon today. Teacher wrap up but my grades are in and my room is cleaned up for the sum...

Code.org posted this image of the class students like the most on their blog . The full survey data is on slide 48 of this PowerPoint fro...

Good stuff here. We really need a good review of this framework to make sure it is as good as it can be. The ACM , CSTA , Code.org , CIC ...

Sorry there was no interesting links post last week. Long story – feel free to ask me about it if you run into me in person this summer. In ...

It is final project time for my programming students. They are working on projects to show me what they have learned. They are very clever t...

One of my big goals this year has been to make my classes more interactive. I want to get kids involved and not be just passive listeners. S...

In several episodes of the comedy TV show “The Big Bang Theory”, Sheldon, the main character, complains that people are “having fun wrong.” ...

Work on a framework for computer science education in grades Kindergarten through grade 12 continues with many of the writers and advisors ...

It’s getting to be the end of the school year. I know teachers who are finished already and others who finish up this week. I have about thr...

Cybersecurity is an area of computing that is getting a lot of attention these days. I am regularly asked about it by prospective parents an...

Well I’m late with this. Usually I write these us Sunday night but last night I was just exhausted. Not in a bad way - just tired. That happ...

Not every coding mistake makes it into the news but one did recently which carries a cautionary message for students (and others who code.) ...

A lot of variety this week. Robots, professional development, news, curriculum. and some controversy around the AP CS A exam. None of it my ...

Last night I lay awake thinking about numbers and programming languages. Yes I know – weird.  One of the first programming languages I was p...