Computer Science Teacher

This seems to be the year a lot of people are really getting concerned about cheating on computer science programming projects. There has be...

Over the years I have used a number of projects to give students practice using if statements – especially those that involved nesting or ch...

"Tools and Weapons" by Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne is a look at some important computing issues through a Microsoft lens. It i...

Neil Plotnick shared some Password Checking Tools on Facebook recently. I’ve used some of these in the past and find them useful and instru...

This is a great program for high school girls interested in technology. I have had several students get awards at the state level and they a...

This looks like a valuable free professional development course for teachers interested in incorporating Scratch into their curriculum. ...

I’m always looking for new projects. I found an interesting example in the book “The Creativity Code” ( Creativity Code review here ). It wa...

The CSTA 2020 Call for Proposals is out and as usual it has me thinking.   Two questions come to mind. One is, what can/should I propose to...

Over the summer Vicki Davis interviewed me for her Ten Minute Podcast. Vicki and I have been friends for a number of years and it is always ...

Tomorrow (Monday) I will meet the new freshmen in my study hall. And I’ll finish getting my room ready for the new school year. First day of...

I’ve been reading a lot about Artificial Intelligence (AI) this year. Several of them have been pretty scary. It was recommended that I take...

I’ve been programming a long time. I wrote my first computer program in 1972. I think the parents of some of my students were not even born ...

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...