Computer Science Teacher

One of the great problems of teaching computer science is that there is a limited amount of time to teach and an unlimited amount of things ...

The last few years have seen a huge expansion in the number and types of cyber security courses in high schools. Much of this has been drive...

I’ve been rather wrapped up in moving the last few weeks so haven’t been thinking about high school, or K-12, computer science education as ...

I love programming. I took a computer science course as an undergraduate and really fell in love with programming.While I made my living wri...

I finished assembling a new bed frame yesterday. I seems solid with good quality materials and seems well designed. The directions on the ot...

I suppose it was inevitable. In the beginning, CSTA only had a free membership. The organization was originally funded by outside sponsors. ...

H1B visas are back in the news these days. One one hand we have some loud calls for more H1B visas with a claim that US native workers are n...

For the last 20 years or so I have been able to meet some truly great teachers. Some I visited in their schools. Some I met at conferences. ...

Eugene Wallingford let me in on A December Adventure   From the website “The December Adventure is low key. The goal is to write a little b...

An interesting article was shared on Facebook recently - Is the 'Hour of Code' the New 30-Minute Saturday Morning Cartoon Commercial...

A presenter at the recent New England CSTA New England Conference mentioned the game Hexapawn .  Hexapawn is hardly new. It was first introd...

I get interesting messages from all sorts of places. Recently, I received this message on LinkedIn. I love the idea of bringing industry pro...

Got your attention didn’t I? More and more teachers are using online coding environments to teach computer science. I used one myself to tea...

The tl;dr of it is no. At least not yet. As more and more people use artificial intelligent agents to help write code we’re learning that AI...

It appears that a lot of people are leaving X (formerly Twitter) I confess to being one of them. Frankly, X isn’t the same for me. A lot of ...

Today I was able to attend the 2024 CSTA New England conference. There were 14 exhibits at the conference and I spent some time with severa...

The NCWIT Aspirations in Computing High School Award is an amazing program for young women THe students I have had who earned these awards ...

It’s about 2:45 AM as I start this post. Why am I writing at this hour? Well, it’s because some things are keeping my mind from shutting dow...

The 2024 CSTA conference was the best one ever for me. It was wonderful to catchup with old friends and to talk to many people I had never m...

Last day of the conference and I woke up to news of a global network outage that was causing delays in thousands of flights. Including my tr...