Paying for Homework
I just received the following email from my nephew, a conscientious and excellent student currently enrolled at an East Coast university costing $68,000/year – before …
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Code.org – Oy Veh
Hate to be a killjoy, but I just looked at one of the Code.org activities for programming turtle graphics in App Lab. As someone who has taught …
Teaching as Art and Magic
The Atlantic featured a really good piece of reflection on the lost art of teaching by the great magician Teller, half of Penn and Teller. …
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Program Your Own Geometry Toolkit
More than 20 years ago, a graduate student of mine, named Beth, (surname escapes me, but she had triplets and is a very fine high school …
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President Obama Discovers Coding – Yippee!
Last year, my friends at Intel invited me to participate in a breakfast summit at the Museum of Contemporary Art overlooking the Sydney Opera House. …
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I Could Go On…
A response to the plethora of articles spouting hooey similar to this article – Saving Computer Science from Itself (Regrettably, I will undoubtedly be compelled to …
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Yuck!
The slide below is being passed around the Internet by well-meaning educators. However, such “don’t do this, do that” statements from startup-culture and Silicon Valley education …
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The Huffington Post Gets Hoodwinked Again
Unlike most media outlets, The Huffington Post actually pretends to take an interest in education. However, I continue to believe that their Education section was …
Watch Your Language!
I engage frequently in conversations such as the one below. These interactions take place online and face-to-face. Well-intentioned educator: We need to teach children to make …
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Why We Need to Reinvent Mathematics Education
Gary StagerVeteran educator Gary Stager, Ph.D. is the author of Twenty Things to Do with a Computer – Forward 50, co-author of Invent To Learn — …