Edutopia blogger Todd Finley considers whole class discussion and presents ample research about what works best.

The argument made in Wired is an interesting one, and I partially buy it.  Are high school and elementary schools the right places to teach programming to everyone?  Does everyone at that level nee…

Every company faces a learning dilemma: the smartest people find it the hardest to learn.

I’m teaching a graduate special-topics course on Computer Science Education Research this semester.  Several folks have asked me about what goes into a class like that.  Here’s the syll…

There are only a couple of universities in Georgia where you can get a CS teaching endorsement (a kind of credential that is an add-on to an initial certification).  In both of them, you have to ha…

I can never forget an evening late into a semester of my Introduction to Python course, during which I asked my students a question about user-defined classes. Here's the...

I’m currently working with a section of American Literature/Composition students who have been asked to look at a historical or current event that embodies a degree of hysteria or abuse of po…

In July, Cynthia Lee, Leo Porter, Beth Simon, and I held a workshop (funded by the NSF IUSE program) for new faculty at research-intensive universities, to help them to be more effective and effici…

Computing has become an inextricable part of our lives.  While I can't argue that computer science is more important than calculus or statistics or a physical or natural science course, it's becoming extremely difficult to argue that it shouldn't be an equal player in that array of extraordinary human achievement.

Let's put some evidence behind those summertime faculty email list battles about CS teaching.

Excerpted from How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success by Julie Lythcott-Haims, out now from Henry...

The digital world has many moving parts, and bringing it into the classroom can seem overwhelming, both for the instructor, and the student. Once it gets broken  down to the pieces that are relevant to the learning outcomes, however, it becomes a bit more manageable, at least from a planning standpoint, for the instructor. For the student, without the proper framework for success, it can still seem pretty overwhelming. Most students are in multiple classes where there is little to no overlap between instructors. Teaching styles, material, technology, and subject are all disjointed. When a digital

Whether you're new to rubrics, or you've used them for years without knowing their formal names, it may be time for a primer on rubric terminology.