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CSTA Certification Committee
Have you taken at any time a computer science teaching methods course? If so, at what university or college? I hope you answered these questions on the recent survey from CSTA. The answers to these two...
View ArticleTechnotrash and the Future
Part of our job as teachers is to excite our students about computing and to show them how computers affect their lives, both now and in the future. These days, many of our students are (rightly)...
View ArticlePRESS RELEASE: ACM, CSTA Announce New Award to Recognize US High School...
Gordon Bell and David Cutler Establish $1 Million Endowment to Fund Award NEW YORK, June 17, 2015– ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, and CSTA, the Computer Science Teachers Association,...
View ArticleCSTA Professional Development Committee
The Professional Development Committee’s purpose is to improve teaching and learning in the computing disciplines by identifying the ongoing professional development needs of members; by developing,...
View ArticleWhat do students think about coding?
What does assessment look like in a K-8 Computer Science program? Computer science teachers like myself use various methods to determine learning amongst their students, examples include: a debug...
View ArticleThe Lessons of HitchBot
This past week, a story circulated around social media about how HitchBot, a friendly hitchhiking robot met a grisly end here in Philadelphia. When the news hit, all my techie friends rallied and...
View ArticleComputer Science in K-8 at the 2015 CSTA conference
This summer’s CSTA conference in Grapevine, Texas had far more K-8 sessions than any previous CSTA conference. A simple metric that measures the strong interest in K-8 Computer Science today. A K-8...
View ArticleRESPECT for Diversity (in Computing)
Last week I had the honor and pleasure of attending the 10th annual STARS Celebration collocated with the first annual RESPECT Celebration in Charlotte, NC. STARS Computing Corps is a community of...
View ArticleComputer Science: Dictating Careers in Digital Technology
The Computer Science Teacher Association’s Executive Director, Mark Nelson was recently featured in MediaplanetUSA’s “Careers in Digital Tech” campaign to inspire students to pursue careers in digital...
View ArticleCS Principles and Creativity
Students will likely need exposure to, and practice with the CS Principles big Idea “Creativity” many, many times before a “creative – innovative – mindset” is comfortable and natural. You may have to...
View ArticleWhat are you doing this year?
What are you doing this year? At the start of the year all educators like to refresh materials, think about what else we could use to teach our content and figure out new ways to engage and challenge...
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Creating Games in ScratchJr without Variables
Written by Aung Nay & Aye Thuzar ScratchJr is a popular graphical programming language that allows children from age five to seven to create “interactive and animated scenes and stories” [1]. It...
View ArticleDisrupting the Gender Gap in Computer Science
On Friday, I’m giving a TED-style talk for our regional school association on what I call the “girl problem” in Computer Science, and how we might fix it. I’ve been preparing for this talk for months,...
View ArticleCSEdWeek: Ideas to Fit Your Schedule
The November Voice is full of great advocacy ideas. Be sure to check it out! (csta.acm.org/Communications/sub/CSTAVoice_Files/csta_voice_11_2015.pdf) CSEdWeek is quickly approaching and it’s likely...
View ArticleDo We Still Need Computer Science Teachers?
These days it seems like “how to learn coding yourself” opportunities are everywhere. There are MOOCs from major universities, code.org (http://code.org) has great online tutorials, Facebook just...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence, Art and Collaboration: Interview with Dr. Kenneth...
As Computer Science teachers, we can all testify that we have spent hours developing our “hard skills” and using them in the classroom and beyond. Chances are a STEM professional will have been...
View ArticleCSTA High School Survey Results Are In
The Research Committee has been analyzing the High School survey results from May and below are some of the highlights. A detailed Summary of Results is available on our website. 51% of the survey...
View ArticleWhy I Joined CSTA
I’m one of the co-chairs of the Membership Committee. While all the committees are responsive to members, it’s our job to think about who our members are, what we can do to support them, and how to...
View ArticleCSEdWeek: Message from CSTA’s ED
December 7-11, 2015 is Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek). It began in 2009 with roughly a dozen organizations (including CSTA) joining together to raise awareness of the need for increased CS...
View ArticleThe Big, Big Computer Science Gender Gap
Check out the recording from Edsurge on Air, “How the Other Half Learns to Code” https://soundcloud.com/edsurge/episode-40-why-there-are-so-few-women-in-computer-science-edtech-recap-1121 Hear...
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