Computer Science Teacher

My school will be on our regularly scheduled April break next week. It’s a nice breather for me and probably for the students as well. It’s ...

For the first time in 5 weeks I visited school today. My purpose was to clear out my personal stuff. I am retiring and I needed to get every...

The other shoe dropped today. New Hampshire’s governor ordered public schools to continue emergency remote teaching for the rest of the scho...

This time of year I always start thinking about the next school year. Even though I don’t expect to be teaching (announced my retirement alr...

John Conway died the other day. He created the famous "Conway's Game of Life " that is familiar to so many programmers and co...

While I do believe that people are the most important part of emergency remote teaching ,  technology does have a serious role to play. One ...

Attendance at my emergency remote teaching classes has been very close to 100%. Frankly, this didn’t surprise me at all. Apparently I should...

That’s the question my students asked the most yesterday. We’re in our fourth week of remote emergency teaching and I think it is starting t...

You may have noticed I didn’t post anything in this blog yesterday. Part of that is because I had to make an unexpected trip to my family’s ...

Recently, I started reading a book about the mathematics of cryptography. ( Mathematics of Secrets ) Fascinating. A lot of the math is hard ...

two of my international students have returned home to China. I spent some time talking to one of them after class today.It was interesting ...

It seems like there are a large number of long Twitter treads where educators are reporting their experiences and how their school is handli...

The College Board has been making some moves to make it harder to cheat on Advanced Placement exams. Given that their business plan relies a...

What my school is doing is trying to replicate the brick-and-mortar model in the online world. Other schools are doing something more like “...

Well. we’re definitely going to stay online until May. Our last week in April is a vacation week. I am hoping it still is. What will May bri...

When administration announced we were moving to remote teaching I started adjusting my plans. Now understand that when the semester started ...

There has been a lot in the news about schools being closed and how schools are dealing with it. There seems to be everything for regular on...

For the last several years I have had international students in some of my classes. Most from China but also South Korea, Viet Nam, and Camb...

My good friend and peer teacher, Tom Indelicato and I share a morning homeroom. It’s online now of course but we join early and stay late to...

We sure are learning a lot about online classes these days. Teachers at my school are using Google Meet and Zoom in about equal numbers. Thi...