Computer Science Teacher

There has been a lot of talk in recent years about doing away with computer labs in schools. BYOD and one to one computers have been talked ...

Recently, I asked my Facebook friends for recommendations for non-fiction books that would not get me depressed. Several people recommended ...

The call for participation in CSTA 2021 is now out. You can learn about the submission process and look at some possible topic areas on the...

I cracked a book and found out that Python supports turtle graphics. I love drawing pictures with graphics. I have since I was in university...

The purpose of school work is to get good grades. Well, at least that seems to be a common view on the part of students. Most teachers will ...

Python has been on my radar for years but I haven’t really had the motivation to learn it myself. It’s time though for several reasons. Reas...

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 ...