Computer Science Teacher

Stack Exchange is one of  a number of online forums being used by the computer science community to ask and answer questions. While most of ...

Computer Science Teachers Needed. But Who Will Pay to Train Them? It's always someone else's job. Or someone else's money. Who ...

Is making computer science a required course for everyone really a good idea? Doug Bergman made some interesting comments on Facebook today...

Lately I have been thinking hard about including small programmable devices in my programming courses. Talking about his on Twitter brought ...

The other day Audrey Watters, one of my favorite contrarians, posted  Why Are Coding Bootcamps Going Out of Business? which focused on the ...

I maintain a computer science education blog roll with as many good blogs for computer science teachers as I can find. It's a good like...

I've been keeping my eyes open for things to discuss with students this fall, especially in Advanced Placement Computer Science Principl...

I added GP to my list of block programming languages this morning. Mark Guzdial announced on his blog that it was available in Beta ( The ...

Garth Flint hits it out of the part with It is not about coding Key issue? "Although both camps were for teachers neither dealt with a...

Normally I write several blog posts during a CSTA Annual Conference. Not this year. Why? Too much going on! The sessions I attended were ver...

Are ethics and the effects of computer science a reason to teach CS to everyone? Increasingly we are seeing all sort of impacts on daily lif...

In some respects we have an identity problem in computer science education. Some of us think of ourselves as computer science teachers. Gene...

I'm going to host a twitter chat on Monday, July 10, 5PM PT / 8PM ET. Join me to talk about teaching computer science away from the comp...

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 ...