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I have to admit that from time to time I like to toss an observation or a question out on Twitter and see what sort of response I get. last night I noticed that a teacher was looking for software to teach computer science on Macs. This struck me as odd.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I am old school. Back when I was developing software for a living we didn’t generally have people whose sole job was to test software. Certainly not in the unit test sort of way that seems so common today.
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So long time readers know that I am not a fan of filtering of the Internet in schools. My wife is a librarian who enthusiastically marks Banned Books Week every year for the chance to discuss censorship with her students so its a family thing I guess.
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Invariably when anyone posts about “the right” programming language to use in a first course a lot of discussion ensues. People are notoriously opinionated about this topic. I am not exempt from this and I admit that I have fallen into this trap in the
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I ran into a thought provoking blog post the other day. Mike Sansone is a blog coach – a consultant who makes a living helping people blog better – wrote a post called “ Are Computer Labs a Crutch? ” In it he says that “ the computer lab shouldn't be
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[Note: Since this was posted ISTE has made some changes to the good. More details in a comment by Miguel Guhlin below and on his blog .] NECC is the largest educational technology conference in the world. It’s huge. There are thousands of educators who
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digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/20/schools-as-communication-free-zones.aspx'; I have this general policy that when I don’t have anything to say I don’t say anything. OK I admit that I have trouble sticking to that policy sometimes.
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The SIGCSE mailing list recently had a long discussion about plagiarism in the context of philosophy of teaching statements being submitted with applications for professorial jobs. While the discussion on plagiarism was interesting what got me thinking
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