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This started out as a comment on Mark Guzdial’s blog post What changes CS Education? which you of course must read. No really. I’ll even wait. Back? OK a key summary jumped out at me: My first pass analysis suggests that, to make change in CS, invent
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Filed under: Visual Basic, Robotics, Computer Science Education, Visual Studio, CSTA, education, Programming, Alice, history, Small Basic, ACM
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I keep doing sets of links to hand out at various conferences. It seems like every time I do the list comes out a little differently. Some new things. Some things have new addresses. And the order of things changes for the audience. This list is from
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Filed under: Visual Basic, Robotics, C#, Computer Science Education, Microsoft, Visual Studio, XNA, Game Programming, education, Programming, fun, Conferences, scratch, first programming experience, Alice, DreamSpark, Small Basic
Just passing this along in hopes that people interested in Alice will see it and take advantage of this opportunity. I have no connection to the conference or the Alice Project. I’m just a fan. Deadline: March 15th, 2009 The 2009 Alice Symposium Duke
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Over at the teaching computers to kids website I found a link to kidslike.info . This site is dedicated to providing free tools for teaching computer science, math and science. They are promising more subjects in the future. I found a number of interesting
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I spent yesterday at a large STEM event in Denver Colorado. Something like 1,500 middle school girls were brought to the Colorado Convention center for workshops and talks about science, technology and engineering. My colleague Hilary Pike conducted several
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Filed under: Visual Basic, Computer Science Education, STEM, Game Programming, education, Programming, scratch, first programming experience, Alice, Popfly, Small Basic, middle school
I received a pair of announcements about summer workshops for teachers at Carnegie Mellon this summer. having attended a number of workshops at CMU over the years I have come to respect them as about the best learning opportunity a teacher can have. They
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I would imagine that a lot of people are looking for interesting things to do with brand new computers this week. Some people are (I hope) looking for ways to teach young people about programming. Or perhaps you are looking for your self regardless of
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Filed under: Robotics, Computer Science Education, Web Development, XNA, Game Programming, education, Programming, fun, Conferences, scratch, first programming experience, Alice
November was an interesting month in some ways. It seems that when I really lay out an opinion piece it attracts more attention in both readers and comments. At the same time some informational posts quietly attract a lot of readers as well. Is Computer
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Barbara Conover, Project Manager, Center for Visualization (Alice Grants) sent me the following information about Alice and Media Computation workshops being run this coming summer. If you are interesting in either Alice or Media Computation as good ways
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