At the beginning of the school year, I had a DonorsChoose.org grant written for some Elegoo Arduino kits. I asked my parents to help support our classroom and handed out instructions on how to give via Donors Choose. They stepped up and funded it, and they funded it quickly. Shortly after the start of school, our new Arduino kits were here… and they were awesome.
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Resistance is futile. The day of the computer program has come. Now, you have a couple of choices. You can choose to ignore that computer science should be a required course, or you can embrace it and head over to www.code.org to see how to get your kids started. Continue reading
Day Four
The end is near, or is it? Is it really ending, or just the beginning of something much longer?
For those who have read about the first three days, you understand that this has been a high energy experience. The folks at code.org manage to keep things running at full steam, all the time. So, how did day four look for those of us going through the CS Discoveries program here at TeacherCon Atlanta?
Day Two:
So today we started day two of our weeklong TeacherCon. I’ve gotta say, the energy of day one would have been hard to beat. I’ve also got to say, the Code.org team did it. Today was a phenomenal day of learning. Continue reading
So, today was the first FULL day of TeacherCon in Atlanta. The long term goal… to get computer science to impact as many students as possible. The short term goal… to get the 500 or so teachers here on the same page and running with the CS Discoveries curriculum. The steady flow of coffee certainly helped keep us fueled and learning.
Maybe you haven’t heard… but computer science is struggling play catch up in school. For years, technology has been advancing, but our educational institutions have not kept up with the pace. The result, we are woefully short on qualified job candidates for computer science and coding careers. The sad part… this is a field where pretty much anyone competent to code can get a job quickly, and make good money. Continue reading
This summer, my daughter was blessed with the opportunity to attend a summer girls coding camp at Mississippi State University. The university dubbed this camp Digital Divas. To say it was a great experience for my daughter would be the understatement of the year.
Coding. English teacher. You might be wondering how in the world these two things remotely go together. Well, in my case, they go together after school in the form of our newly formed Commodore Coding Club. Continue reading