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Last week I was traveling on vacation with my family, and next week I’ll be traveling on vacation with my family. This week I’m recovering from / preparing for traveling on vacation with my family, plus I spent some time … Continue reading →

Considering my previous posting of July 3, “Consider Using [Albeit Silly] Pop Culture to Illustrate Computer Science”, you might expect I’d like Yoav Yair’s Distance Learning column, “Did You Let a Robot Check My Homework?” in the June 2014 issue … Continue reading →

At a small Computer Science education conference I attended a few years ago, the dinner speaker showed how the lectures we give could be enlivened by music such as songs he played on his guitar. But what if you’re not … Continue reading →

On December 11, 2013, Governor Scott Walker signed into law Act 63 (aka SB 51), which among other things requires 3 years of math and science for high school graduation. This law also allows 1 year of computer science to … Continue reading →

Although there are some signs that the number of women involved in computing such as software engineers has been increasing, an engineer at Pinterest, Tracy Chou, has discovered that based on 107 companies, that number is about 12%,  roughly half … Continue reading →

Mark Guzdial wrote a great blog on October 28, 2013 on his excellent Computing Education Blog entitled “A Theory for why there’s so little CS Ed in the US”. http://computinged.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/a-theory-predicting-when-computing-education-will-reach-us-high-schools/ In the second section entitled “Why is there so little … Continue reading →

STEM 2.0 – Transformational Thinking about STEM for Education and Career Practitioners. Jim Brazell, international speaker with two decades of experience leading innovative design projects in education, technology and business innovation, published this in July, 2013. He addressed the STEM … Continue reading →

The article by Robert N Charette, contributing editor of IEEE Spectrum, posted on their site on August 30, 2013 has certainly drawn much interest. I and colleagues of mine do look at this issue much differently. The “shortage”as defined in … Continue reading →

Very recently a contributing editor of IEEE Spectrum, Robert N Charette, wrote an article entitled “The STEM Crisis is a Myth” < http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-is-a-myth> posted on August 30, 2013 Note: This blog post is very US-centric, though Charette does have links … Continue reading →