Technology can be powerful for learning and collaborating—as a computer science teacher, it’s what I live and breathe. And yet I also recognize that the most important community-building students do ...
During the summer, I taught a computer science course for educators at the Krause Center for Innovation at Foothill College. Funded by Google’s CS4HS grant, this was a four-day intensive “crash course ...
Beginnings: Landgraf says she always had her eyes glued to a computer screen when she was young – and tinkered with computers and code whenever she could. She first studied finance in college and ...
In the summer of 2021, Christine Bailey, a teacher at Blessed Maria Assunta Pallotta Middle School in Waterloo, was about to begin a workshop to learn how to teach computer science, and she was ...
The lack of computer science technology educators in middle schools continues to be a genuine crisis, especially considering the critical role of STEM education in preparing students for future ...
Miriam Haart ’22 is the 19-year-old co-teacher of CS11: How to Make VR, a class on designing virtual reality applications using the Unity game engine, a platform for developing applications. After ...
Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free monthly newsletter How I Teach to get inspiration, news, and advice for — and from — educators. Shannon Houtrouw admits he first ...
He was the computer teacher without a computer. Then his story went viral — and his life (and classroom) changed. On March 1, NPR published a story about Owura Kwadwo Hottish, 33, who painstakingly ...
With just a blackboard and a talent for drawing, a Ghanaian teacher has explained in detail to his students the secrets of Microsoft Word, earning numerous headlines and worldwide admiration. Now ...
According to a scene from the 2009 movie Star Trek, young Vulcans experience a system of education quite different from our own. Instead of learning from “teachers,” they are instructed in pods ...