Computer Science Teacher

A number of related (well in my eyes anyway) have got me thinking about how we need to develop computer science teachers. Phil Bagge’s post ...

This is the second of these conferences. How I missed the first year I don’t remember but I’m glad I made it to this one. The conference was...

Know someone or some organization or some school responsible for doing great things in computer science education? Maybe they should be nomi...

Ethics has been on my mind a lot lately. Last week, the ACM had a Twitter chat around the ACM Code of Ethics using the hashtag #ACMCodeOfEt...

I first started to appreciate the cost of professional development when I was working with and for Microsoft. Microsoft at the time was work...

On Thursday, October 18, ACM will host a Twitter chat on ethics in computing beginning at 11:00 a.m. EDT (15:00 UTC). During the chat, ACM w...

These are great chats with a lot of wonderful people sharing ideas about computer science in grades K through 8. Join us for # csk8 chat ...

My motto has long been "steal from the best" at least when it comes to teaching resources. Today I found a good project from Code....

I avoided buying Origin by Dan Brown for about a year.While I really liked The Davinci Code, I have been disappointed with his other books....

Project ideas are everywhere. Today a friend apparently spent some time figuring out what words his phone number spelled. It turns out that ...

Several years ago a parent at an open house asked me the question in the title of this post. He seemed happy with the response. My resume is...

One of the hard things for students to learn is simplicity. Beginners tend to over complicate things. In part this is because they lack the ...

Are you an Advanced Placement Computer Science teacher? Are you concerned about increasing the number of women in computing?  Are you willin...

One of my goals this year is to improve my demonstration code. As part of that I want some demos that build on top of one another. A lot of ...

About five years ago I interviewed Doug Bergman for my occasional series of interviews with computer science teachers.  Doug is constantly ...

Not long ago someone asked on Facebook for great HS CS programs to visit. Three schools came up quickly and repeatedly. Two are large magnet...

The more I talk to people about what should be included in high school computer science the more I thing of the Indian story of the blind me...

There was a lot of good CS education activity on Twitter this past weekend. I know I missed a lot of it but some things did stand out for me...

I drove behind a Google Maps Street view car for a couple of miles today. Things I wondered about: Will my car show up on Street View? What ...

Last week Bill Gates visited the Academy for Software Engineering , a computer science focused high school in New York City. and wrote about...