Computer Science Teacher

This is sort of a riff from yesterday’s post about what to teach students who are beyond the normal Advanced Placement CS level or perhaps ...

This question is now more complicated since we have two AP CS exams again. Does CS A follow CS P? Should it be one or the other but not both...

Suppose you have students learning computer science from first grade to high school. How many times can you teach loops? Maybe you start wit...

One of the great things about ISTE is a chance to talk to people face to face. When that happens a lot of things come up. Yesterday and toda...

I am at ISTE and have lost count of the times today someone said "you can program this without knowing how to code." Usually they ...

If I am seeing a theme at ISTE 2017 so far it is making. Session after session demonstrates learning by making things. No where is this more...

Recently I came across this cartoon and shared it on Facebook. Responses were interesting. The newer one was to programming the more likely ...

Garth Flint is a computer science teacher in Montana. While most computer science teachers are a bit isolated, most are the only CS teacher ...

Today was watch movie day. I watched two movies that I have been thinking about showing to my computer science students. The first one I wat...

The Micro:bit (nee BBC Micro:bit) is now available in the US and Canada . This little device has been in classrooms in the United Kingdom f...

I always read articles like this one - The 5 Worst Ways to Teach Computer Science – with some trepidation. I always expect to find out that...

One of my former students posed that question. He then asked if it were: Building computer scientists Building software engineers Building ...

Recently a middle school teacher asked what computer science knowledge would high school computer science teachers like their incoming stude...

OK this is an opportunity too good to pass up if you are a K12 computer science teacher. Seriously. If you are a K12 teacher, then Rolls Ro...

Years ago I was giving a career talk in Roxbury (a heavily minority neighborhood in Boston) to a group of students. At the end a young Afric...

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

Andy Ko , Associate Professor at the University of Washington iSchool and Chief Scientist & Co-Founder @answerdash has posted a blog an...

An article about cheating in CS classes from the New York Times ( As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating ) has been all over my ...

It’s been a while since I posted one of these collections. And I’ve been blogging a lot less lately. Call it a sort of blogging vacation. I ...

Maybe you can help me? My gut tells me that virtual reality or even mixed reality can be useful for teaching computer science. How to do tha...