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The other week while I was at NECC (what a great time meeting with and learning from some wonderful educators) we filmed a video of me demonstrating Kodu . You can see it and read some thoughts from the Microsoft Education team at the Microsoft US Education blog . Kodu demonstration for schools Some...

Earlier this week Scott McLeod wrote a somewhat critical blog post ( NECC - Vendor excess (aka Do pink Cadillacs really sell printers?) ) about the exhibit hall at NECC. It was a thought provoking post not the least because I was working for an exhibitor at NECC. What I concluded was that there are several...

I remember when I was teaching elementary school as a technology specialist. Stickers were king. Little kids will do almost anything for a sticker. I thought that once students moved to high school that was all over but it turns out that some high school kids will do a lot for a sticker as well. I think...

The kick off speaker for the SIGCT Forum at NECC this year was Jeannette Wing from Carnegie Mellon and the National Science Foundation. Her paper Computational Thinking , CACM vol. 49, no. 3, March 2006 is a must read for, well, just about anyone in education or in the computing field in my opinion....