Computer Science Teacher

Learning about Jacdac devices was my incentive to buy a Micro:Bit 2.0 The Micro:Bit 2.0 has a number of upgrades and new features from the...

Mike Zamansky had another interesting post ( CS - it isn't all that ) that got me thinking. The last three paragraphs started me going. ...

CSTA 2022 was energizing! After three years of not seeing people in person it was awesome to reconnect with people. And to meet new people. ...

It’s a short day today but with plenty to learn. Last night was a great party at the Museum of Science and Technology . I left early (age?) ...

I got an early (for me ) start this morning. I attended a briefing session for session proctors (after missing yesterday’s) so that was good...

Day two started off great as I connected with several people from my home CSTA Chapter –CSTA New Hampshire. The CS community in New Hampshir...

I blog about what interests me or stirs my curiosity. One thing that fits that is what are the really big tech companies doing to support CS...

Well it was day one for me. I know that some people got in yesterday or earlier either because they were taking a workshop today or were par...

My friend Andrew Parsons send me this link to an interesting video The unexpected logic behind rolling multiple dice and picking the highest...

The CSTA Annua Conference is only days away. I’m pretty excited about it. It’s my first plane ride since CSTA in Phoenix in 2019. That’s a l...

On my first visit to the Lifelong Kindergarten Group and the MIT Media Lab, I notices a message on the windows. “Some people would rather mo...

Spring is an interesting time on social media. I help moderate a couple of CS teacher groups on Facebook and let me tell you, membership is ...

My son’s school, he’s principal of an elementary school, had a Bingo themed fundraiser yesterday. I can’t help but think about how things ar...

The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and the Kapor Center are conducting a survey of K-12 computer science teachers in the Unite...

We often underestimate the difference that small things can make. When I was in high school all I could afford was a cheap plastic slide rul...

My latest discovery, thanks to Doug Peterson , is Crazy Phrase . Crazy Phrase is something of a variation of Wordle except that in Crazy Phr...

There is a lot of discussion about moving the Advanced Placement CS A exam to Python from Java. The Collegeboard is reluctant to do so. They...

Perhaps my favorite panel of SIGCSE 2022 was debating the question of should the APCS A course switch its language from Java to Python? Duri...

I had a great time at SIGCSE 2022. As an introvert I probably suffered less from not being with people than many but after two years I reall...

Saturday at SIGCSE was a short day but there was still plenty to learn. Shaundra Daily . Her talk, based on her own history, was about how t...