Computer Science Teacher

Four years ago I was at a two day informal gathering of teachers. As much as I really enjoy conferences like CSTA, SIGCSE, ISTE and others t...

Ria Galanos has a wonderful blog about her experiences moving from the classroom to a life as a professional software developer. It’s been a...

One of the interesting t-shirts I saw at CSTA 2019 last week said “Question Technology.” That might seem to be a strange slogan at a compute...

CSTA 2019 gave me a lot to think about. Today I was thinking about what was impressive and I thought about the Tuesday lunch panel. Microsof...

After the announcement of a millions dollar grant by Google to CSTA and the new “Code with Google” program I was asked “what does a company ...

I’m pretty sure I have been to every CSTA conference going back to when it was the CS & IT conference and there was no CSTA organization...

So I missed the opening keynote which I am sure was amazing but I spent the time catching up with a good friend who I see too rarely. Time w...

I’m always skeptical about celebrity keynotes at education conferences so my expectations for Natasha Singer from the New York Times.were no...

As planned I spent most of the morning helping at registration. And talking to a lot of people as they came in. After lunch the exhibit hall...

Sunday was the start of CSTA 2019 with workshops and the Chapter Leadership Summit. I wasn’t part of the summit and I didn’t get to any work...

I’m on my way to Phoenix AZ for the CSTA conference.  For years I would get there early and leave late. This was especially true when I was ...

There was a time when I would have written a blog post every night of ISTE. Apparently I’m getting older or something and that is not a prio...

I found an interesting article today New Hampshire installs first historical marker to honor computer programming The BASIC programming lan...

Summer time is time for me to do a lot of thinking about my teaching practice. I've been doing a lot of reading and a couple of quotes h...

What to teach and how t teach are different questions. The first is all about content knowledge and the second is about pedagogy. For the mo...

At it’s best, social computing is a conversation that moves in a positive direction. The more people who participate the better the conversa...

A recent Facebook post suggested changing the language for Advanced Placement Computer Science A (what some of us annoy others by calling AP...

Garth Flint had another good post today ( Last Day of School And Done with Java ) He lists some interesting projects he assigned and writes ...

My programming students are working on their final/semester projects. As is typical some of them are doing extra work on their projects at h...

It’s the end of the school year for me. Next week is our final exam week and my students are working on their semester projects. I use proje...