Computer Science Teacher

Gamification is a huge buzz word in education generally today. There are proponents and opponents of course. And both sides have good argume...

For me one of the big benefits of social media is getting and sharing ideas from other computer science teachers. Blogs, Twitter, and Facebo...

This looks interesting. Know a girl with entrepreneurship dreams and ideas? #BUILTBYGIRLS is looking for the next wave of startup founders a...

One of the big topics around computer science education is the shortage of teachers with enough CS knowledge to properly teach the subject. ...

With the isolation that many computer science teachers feel social media can be an important part of both building community and professiona...

Cybersecurity seems to be all the rage these days. It was a big topic of conversation at this summer's CSTA conference, I've had a n...

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 ...