Recently within my alumni community there was a discussion of Founders School - a private for profit school which is a specialty school under the umbrella of Alpha School. The deal is that at Founders...

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THe Netlogo Center is running their first in person conference at the end of June in Chicago (info and registration). It's an event I'm looking forward to attending and also to be presenting at. I've ...

Devorah and I are spending the week in Boston, well techincally Cambridge. We came up last year around this time and had a big StuyCS meet up hosted at Formlabs. I was talking to my friends in the Stu...

So, one of the things I've been doing since retirement is working for and with my alumni community. We've held focussed events like an AI panel and a blockchain talk and have had meetups in New York a...

I wanted to follow up on my earlier post on why teaching CS still matters. In that post, I cited a couple of former students. Not only former students but particularly high achieving ones. One friend ...

Still in St. Louis but we're now up to sessions and BOFs. On Thursday, I attended two sponsor sessions on AI. One by GitHub and the other Google. In retrospect, they were both really the same session ...

Still stuck in St. Louis and still haven't finished my SIGCSE series but there have been a few threads in the various CS Education groups about the big changes in code.org and how AI might be making l...

History is a funny thing. They say it's written by the victors but even when the "good guys" win, the history taught is often, let's say, incomplete. Back in school we'd learn about all sorts of feel ...

Finally we get to teachers observing teachers - what Mark was writing about to begin with. These observations could be a one off, for a few days, or even through a full course. This could also be a te...

following up on my last post, let's dive in to being oberved as a model for teacher improvement and teacher evaluation. Next time we'll look at the flip side - teachers observing for improvement. As I...

Back in for the evening. Not in Barcelona anymore - spending a few days now in Madrid. Sadly, I got a message from a fellow CS Educator who lives in Barcelona the day we left so if any reader out ther...

Over a month since my last post. Wow. Anyway, last week was full of Artificial Intelligence events. On Wednesday, I attended a talk by Ray Kurzweil, hosted by Trinity High School - a posh private scho...

Last week my StuyCS family community had a discussion about Zohran Mamdani's plans for gifted education. For people outside of New York, Mamdani is the Democratic candidate for mayor and there was a r...

I saw this release from NYSED the other day. New York State wants to create a standard set of policies and procedures for schools implementing Dual Credit programs. A Duel Credit class is a college cl...

I listened to the latest episode of Kristen Stephen-Martinez's CS Ed Podcast. The episode focused on Professor Emeritus, William G. Griswold, of UCSD's practice of requiring students meet with him out...

Today is Labor Day. That means that tomorrow NYC public school teachers return to work. I mean, not me - I'm still happily retired but still I have many friends going back. Kids come back on Thursday....

Lets start off with Cleveland and then we'll get to my suggestions for the CSTA. Cleveland I never had a chance to explore Cleveland before. I was actually in the city once before, for a junior nation...

Exhibit Hall Let's start with the exhibit hall. First things I noticed that while Amazon, Google, and Microsoft were all listed as sponsors, none of them had booths in the exhibition space. This was a...

Let's talk about the final two sessions I attended. The Future of Computer Science Education in an Age of AI This was a panel. Pat Yongpradit and BT Twarek co-moderated a panel consisting of Julie Yor...

Thursday, day 3. This was my last conference day since I had to leave bright and early on Friday. Four more sessions. As I started to write them up I thought things were getting a little long so this ...

Four sessions up for today. First one "Certified to Rock: Cleveland's Journey in CS Teacher Prep." Basically a discussion of the pathways for teachers to become CS certified in Cleveland. It wasn't a ...

With the keynotes out of the way, let's get to some sessions. First up, Tuesday - day 1. The morning was set for workshops. I didn't attend any of those but I did go to two afternoon sessions. One was...

Just got back from CSTA 2025. Well, not directly. Last Monday Devorah and I got in the car and drove to Cleveland for the festivities. Unfortunately, we couldn't stay for the duration - I had to miss ...

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Saw this article in the New York Times yesterday. It's been making its rounds. There was some discussion in some of the CS Ed related online groups, my friend Alfred Thompson posted his take here, and...

Warning: This post is political and involves my views on antisemitism and the Gaza situation. So, in my travels over the past year or so, I've been trying to hit independent book stores or otherwise c...

This article made its rounds this past week. It cites a couple of papers claiming that CS teachers are delivering better instruction and might be better qualified than teachers in other subject areas....

How many different intro CS courses should we have? A question that resurfaces periodically. This time due to an article in which C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup posits that different audiences would be...

The truth is, I don't use those modern AI tools much. I'm not doing much coding and when I do, I've been using Clojure or Elisp - not so mainstream so as to have all sorts of AI support. For writing? ...

Based on some of the feedback I got on my last post, I thought I'd dive a little deeper on using slide decks. I had some people tell me that they too found that slide decks didn't work for them while ...

The other day I read Kristin Stephens-Martinez's latest blog post talking about how she has started to insert a daily plan slide at the front of her class slide decks. Stephens-Martinez, you might kno...

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Is it CS for All or is it All for CS? CS for All, to me has always meant exposing all students to CS for two reasons. First, so that every student gains some understanding of CS and also so that some ...

To finish up, we'll look at some of the other sessions I attended but first a couple of notes. One thing I again noticed was the lack of pedagogy sessions. Maybe I missed something but other than Nift...

So last week I completed my second and final week back at Stuy teaching CS. We spent Monday finishing up the mode lesson and then spent most of the week on this topic - writing a computer program to a...

Once again, there were three sets of Birds of a Feather sessions. Two at the end of the day on Thursday but before the big reception and one partly over lunch on Friday. Last year I enjoyed two but wa...

As you might have heard, I'm back at Stuyvesant teaching. Not permanent or full time - just covering for a CS teacher who's on grand jury duty. She's out for three week but since I was at SIGCSETS for...

The day 2 keynote was really a treat. After giving out the years SIGCSE awards, instead of getting a standard talk, all three recipients, Jonathan Mwaura, Mitchel Resnick and Manuel Pérez-Quiñones par...

I spent last week in Pittsburgh for The SIGCSE Technical Symposium, that's SIGCSETS to you. Lots of talks, lots of sessions and lots of people. We drove in on Tuesday since Batya had a workshop Wednes...

A blog about computer science education. Projects, resources, and ideas for teaching, learning, and using computer science. By a teacher for teachers.

Even before I retired I knew that after a break I'd want to get back in the game. Not full time, but in a limited capacity when interesting opportunities presented themselves. Well, it's time to start...

Devorah and I spent this week in Savannah Georgia. Our first time. For the past few years, we've taken a trip mid winter to someplace warmer. Not necessarily warm but warmer. Last year was Charleston ...

It seems that every year or so we have a discussion as to what's the best programming language to teach first. I thought today I'd look at a variation of that question. What language features should w...

In my Blog Reboot post I talked about blogging being a fading pastime. Over at Irreal, JCS responded that his experience says otherwise and that his RSS feeds in fact experiencing a rebirth. Both can ...

I spent yesterday evening at the Leanord Nimoy Thalia theater. Once an art house cinema, I spent many hours there watching all sorts of movies - timeless classics, B films, cult movies, and cartoon ni...

Time to reboot the blog. Why? Because of my new tablet. So, I got a new tablet a week or so ago. A Oneplus Pad 2. It's a 12" android tablet. I really only use it in the mornings in the winter and incl...

As he usually does (and of which I'm always appreciative) JCS shared my most recent Emacs post in which I go over a small Elisp routine that I wrote. JCS commented that he liked that I don't post proc...