Computer Science Teachers Conference (CSTA CS/IT 2010)
Yesterday was a long day well spent at Google headquarters for the Computer Science Teachers Association‘s annual Computer Science & Information Technology Symposium. It was a fairly modest gathering — I think there were about 200 of us (soon to be 10,000) – but a lot of great folks came out and there were fantastic conversations [...]
CS/IT 2009
What a week. My flight out of DC was delayed so I didn’t get into Seattle until late Sunday night. Monday was the start of my summer class on technology for incoming 9th graders. I gave the students a survey to see what they were interested in learning and the results convinced me to change [...]
TeraGrid ’09 High School Teacher Bridge Day
The TeraGrid is an NSF-funded grid computing endeavor in support of science and engineering research. This week, TeraGrid ’09 took place in Arlington, Virginia and the organizers added on a one day workshop for high school teachers. I was hoping to get some ideas on how to introduce parallel computing concepts early and maybe even [...]
Rediscovering the passion.
“Has anyone considered the possibility that it’s just not fun any more?” – Don Knuth, Stanford University, October 2006 SIGCSE caught me in an interesting place somewhere between extreme career-angst and profound passion for ongoing CS projects. Unsurprisingly, a number of the sessions I chose to attend had to do with computer science’s negative image [...]
