Computer Science Teacher

I haven't been blogging much lately. I'm adjusting to being retired for the most part but I have been reading and thinking a lot abo...

Weapons of Math Destruction has been out for a couple of years now and it is one of those books that a lot of people reference. I finally g...

The first online CSTA Conference is now about 24 hours behind me. I was fortunate to experience it both as an attendee and a presenter. Afte...

The first thing I did this morning was to prepare for my presentation. I may have made some last minute changes to my presentation deck. The...

Day one of the online CSTA 2020 conference has been today. I’m blogging this as the day goes on and posting it at the end of the day. We sta...

Full disclosure: I haven’t read all of “Computer Science for K-12” edited and compiled by Shuchi Grover yet but a couple of chapters was eno...

One of the interesting points Amy Ko makes in her presentation to Microsoft ( CS education in higher education ) is that “Most faculty have ...

Amy Ko posted a slide deck about CS education in higher education from a presentation she made to a group at Microsoft. There is a ton of s...

This past spring semester was my first time teaching remotely but not my first time working remotely. I worked from home while working in in...

Like most K-12 teachers, a membership in a professional society like ACM or IEEE is not funded by my school. So I pay out of pocket for an A...

In my end of course evaluations I asked my students if they learned better online or in the classroom. Not surprisingly, most of them said t...

My last class of the school year just ended. My grades and report card comments are in the system. I am not going back to school in the fall...

Today I was online with my students for about 90 minutes of a planned 55 minute class. One of my students joined the Google Meet session ear...

My school ran a pair of online awards events yesterday. We had almost 850 people on the day time Zoom meeting and around 500 on the evening ...

Live coding or as I like to call it coding without a net is a wonderful way to teach.There was a time when I thought that having prewritten ...

There is already a lot of discussion about schools and the fall semester. Will we be in physical spaces again? Will we be online again? Will...

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...