Computer Science Teacher

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

I’m a software engineer at Microsoft and a volunteer computer science teacher at Kansas State School for the Blind Outside of work, I’m starting a free initiative to bring guest speakers from the tech industry into high school, community college, or university classrooms or clubs to share their experience and do a q&a.

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Computing Education Research Blog

MARCH 5, 2025

I was on a panel Assessments for Non-CS Major Computing Classes (see the ACM DL paper here ). Her talk was particularly relevant to me because she emphasized how she is studying business students, not computer science students her research is about how non-CS students interact with computing and programming.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Next week, February 17-23, 2019, is DiscoverE’s Engineers Week. Their tagline: “A week-long event, a year-long commitment” Do you wonder why anyone would be passionate about engineering? million engineering jobs that pay $42 per hour in median. What is Engineers Week? has approximately 1.6

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 14, 2020

As High School seniors prepare to graduate, many will choose something about computers for their job or continued studies. Here’s a great overview from an Ask a Tech Teacher contributor of what one of those fields–working with the powerful algorithms that drive search and research–is about: What are search engine algorithms?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Professions That Rely Heavily on Mathematics Engineering: The Backbone of Innovation Engineering is perhaps the most obvious field where mathematics plays a starring role. Mathematics: The Language of Computer Science Theoretical Foundations At the heart of computer science lies a rich tapestry of mathematical concepts.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and cloud computing are transforming businesses. Students can’t go wrong with future careers in information technology and computer science. Machine learning engineer One of the best technology jobs of the future is as a machine learning engineer.

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Computer Science Teacher

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This is especially true of the many teachers who dont self identify as computer science teachers. Many see themselves are math teachers or science teachers or elementary school teachers or , well, you get the picture, rather than computer science teachers. Will they spend more money to join CSTA? Often, I fear, not.

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ED Surge

MARCH 17, 2025

Whether a student is interested in healthcare, engineering, computer science or business, a virtual career explorer can help them see the possibilities and take their first steps toward a fulfilling career.

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Computer Science Teacher

APRIL 7, 2025

Some years ago I was working on a team of five people creating a huge test structure to test computer systems. These nodes consisted of a disk storage node, and up to fifteen computers. Actually, any mix of computers and disk storage controllers totaling sixteen nodes. The systems were called VAX Clusters.

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Computing Education Research Blog

MARCH 9, 2025

Im hesitant to state a preference for my favorite paper at the International Computing Education Research (ICER) Conference in 2024. My favorite paper of ICER 2024 was Alice Chung and Philip Guos paper Perpetual Teaching Across Temporary Places: Conditions, Motivations, and Practices of Media Artists Teaching Computing Workshops.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2021

The community support makes it very easy for kids to learn computer science with Python. For instance, Matplotlib is used for plotting charts and graphs; SciPy for engineering applications, science, and mathematics; Beautiful Soup for HTML parsing and XML and NumPy for scientific computing.

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ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2022

Students can start as early as upper elementary school with programs like Ozaria , a narrative adventure game that sets a foundation of core computer science (CS) concepts. The transition to the more advanced CodeCombat platform is easy, and players can quickly advance to competitive head-to-head arenas, which are built into the curriculum.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 17, 2015

You won’t break the computer. When I got my first computer, most people didn’t have one so I taught myself by testing, trying, failing, researching, or whatever worked. Don’t let those geeky tech nerds who work magic on your school’s computers intimidate you. Test the tool. Ask for help. Attend webinars.

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CoderZ

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In this blog, we will discuss why its essential to foster student resilience and how game-based computer science can offer an effective avenue for empowering resilient learners. Learning computer science in a game-based environment empowers students to be confident and take creative risks as they work to tackle complex problems.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2024

In 2013, the STEM and Computer Science (STEM+CS) team was created to implement an interdisciplinary grades K-12 STEM program outside the grade-level core disciplines of ELA, math, science and social studies, and separate from the standard Career Technical Education (CTE) programs to reach all students.

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All About STEM

JANUARY 17, 2025

I’m a Scientist I’m a Computer Scientist I’m an Engineer I’m a Mathematician Students: Choose your favourite subject! I’m a Scientist, Get me out of here is a student-led learning experience engaging school students with people working in STEM.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

Google It As a student, part of my schooling involved library classes, computer classes and English classes, during which I received dedicated instructional time using Mozilla Firefox and Google to do research for school projects. We were taught not to plagiarize and to cite our sources.

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CoderZ

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

4, 2024) – Intelitek and CoderZ, an Intelitek company, announced today that the Dallas ISD has approved the CoderZ coding platform and the RoboX 3D simulation platform for the district’s pre-engineering and robotics certification programs as part of a recent request for proposal initiative.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2025

While every years crop of finalists is impressive, Adams says the program organizers noticed something different about this years cohort of brainy student engineers. Among the top 50 teams, 42 percent used artificial intelligence to power their inventions. Thats up from just 6 percent in 2024.

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Ellipsis Education

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The Benefits of Hands-On Learning in Computer Science and STEM Education Introduction At Ellipsis Education, we believe hands-on learning is at the heart of building deep, lasting understanding in computer science. In computer science, this means teaching students how to approach challenges with perseverance. Oyedeji, A.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Let’s reinforce that goal by stepping away from digital device, recognize that these skills — critical thinking and problem-solving — apply to any part of life, even without a computer, iPad, or smartphone in hand. This includes non-computer activities such as Happy Maps, Graph Paper Programming, Dice Race, Binary.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 6, 2024

There’s always been something mystically cerebral about people in technical professions like engineering, science, and mathematics. It’s a bit different than a classroom teacher. They talk animatedly about plate tectonics, debate the structure of atoms, even smile at the mention of calculus.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 3, 2021

There’s always been something mystically cerebral about people in technical professions like engineering, science, and mathematics. Life after the 100th crashed computer is what might be called a life-defining moment. So, do try to fix your broken computer yourself (i.e., Teacher Appreciation Week: The First Full Week of May.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

Soon, employees from one of the world’s most influential companies will arrive to teach these students about computer science: how to program computer games, how to work with data and how to found and run a business. Oakland schools have made significant investments in teaching computer science and engineering.

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Computing Education Research Blog

MARCH 30, 2025

I was pleased that they positively contrasted our courses with CS classes that they had taken previously, but I didnt realize how much baggage the students brought with them how negatively they perceived computer science. I like computers. Maybe its because of how we frame the field of computer science.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Let’s reinforce that goal by stepping away from digital device, recognize that these skills — critical thinking and problem-solving — apply to any part of life, even without a computer, iPad, or smartphone in hand. This includes non-computer activities such as Happy Maps, Graph Paper Programming, Dice Race, Binary.

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Computer Science Teacher

AUGUST 13, 2022

Way back in time, cybersecurity was all about controlling access to the computer in the locked room with the raised floor. Social engineering not technical engineering. People were and are still the weak link in computer security. In the early days few people had access to a computer. Someone broke in anyway.

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Computer Science Teacher

JULY 18, 2024

Items for physical computing are everywhere. They are promoting their Future Engineers program. The Hidden Genius Project is trying to get young Black men into computing. I highlight a few here. One textbook company has a small booth. I wonder that that means. That gets a post of its own soon. Amazon is here with a nice booth.

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Career in STEM

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Michigan Tech engineering professor Joshua Pearce has an approach that can help people in the real world save money on STEM education, state-of-the-art scientific equipment and many consumer products we all use every day. Pearce is well known in the research community for savings scientists millions of dollars using open source tricks.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Especially for youngsters diving headlong into computer programming with an organization like Black Girls Code. The idea came to Asemota, who is in her final semester as a biomolecular science major with a computer science minor, during the doldrums of pandemic lockdown isolation in 2020. That’s sort of how I had it mapped out.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 28, 2019

The Number One reason–according to students–why their computer doesn’t work is… It’s broken. As a teacher, I hear this daily, often followed by the solution, I need a different computer. My students innately think computer problems are something they can’t solve. in engineering or years of experience in IT.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 10, 2023

When I started teaching K-8 technology, people like me were stuffed into a corner of the building where all other teachers could avoid us unless they had a computer emergency, pretending that what we did was for “some other educator in an alternate dimension”. So, do try to fix your broken computer yourself (i.e.,

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MAY 2, 2022

There’s always been something mystically cerebral about people in technical professions like engineering, science, and mathematics. Life after the 100th crashed computer is what might be called a life-defining moment. So, do try to fix your broken computer yourself (i.e., Gifts tech teachers will love. Then, you’ll feel at home.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

When districts slot students into math classes based on ability they send conspicuous messages to those on the lower track that they are not smart enough, says Ho Nguyen, who was a K-12 math and computer science program administrator in San Francisco during the district's detracking attempt. Its worse when class and race intersect, he says.

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Cool Cat Teacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

link] Dr. Erin Krupa Dr. Erin Krupa Erin Krupa is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education at North Carolina State University (NCSU). .” International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 13 (2015): 405-423.

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STEM Education Works

JANUARY 27, 2025

A computer is the perfect example of coaxing matter to do the extraordinary. By manipulating the flow of electrons through different materials, computers are able to harness very simple physics to transform the world around us. Engineering Engineering is all about finding effective and efficient solutions to problems big and small.

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Computer Science Teacher

MARCH 14, 2023

tl;dr Book recommendations: Overnight Code: The Life of Raye Montague, the Woman Who Revolutionized Naval Engineering Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II Overnight Code was recommended to me after I recommended Code Girls on Facebook. Debugging code is arguably a lot harder than writing new code.

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