Computer Science Teacher

Last night I had a dream during which someone suggested that COBOL would make a good first programming language. They tried to promote the d...

I was reading through The Big Book of Computing Pedagogy , as one does, the other night. Specifically, the section on student misconceptions...

Every couple of weeks I bake a couple of loaves of bread. The bread mostly gets used for breakfast sandwiches. Now my bread does not look as...

" A rose by any other name would smell as sweet " William Shakespeare. There are cultures where people have a sort of public name ...

I was thinking about data science lately. The problem is that I don’t know much about data science. I learned about data bases in school and...

It;s seems like artificial intelligence has been “10 years away” for the last 40 years. Back in the mini computer days every computer was cu...

Way back in time, cybersecurity was all about controlling access to the computer in the locked room with the raised floor. Well, you had to ...

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...