As 21st-century teachers, we are expected to help students master the technological tools they will use in college and the workplace. But in many districts, the one-computer classroom is not extinct.
In Megan Bowen’s high school robotics class, students made cardboard mazes, quizzed a local expert who brought live birds into her classroom, and decided how they should be graded, all before touching ...
Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Despite growing demand for computer science skills in professional careers and many areas of life, K-12 schools struggle to teach ...
In 2023, the LeNoir Foundation, a UK-based 'for impact' organization, concluded the construction of a library at Saving Arms Primary School in Kampala, Uganda. While outfitting the facility with ...
There's a word floating around among students and staff at Antioch High School lately: Stantioch. Teacher Andrew Becker proudly coined the term after the school partnered with Stanford University to ...
This past fall quarter, Stanford offered an introductory computer science class to more than 200 talented high school students from around the nation. When I first received the opportunity to serve as ...
Ibrahim Abdus-Sabur may not normally be a teacher, but he feels right at home in Morgan State University classrooms. “I love being on campus with so many people of color, just walking around campus on ...
Like most academic and technical fields, computer science has many subtleties and layers. Teaching this subject to pre-teens and teens can be challenging with a full computer lab – imagine tackling ...
Bitcoin Pizza day is coming up on May 22, so now is a good time to take stock of how bitcoin has evolved since its inception. I’m teaching the first bitcoin class this semester at Texas A&M University ...
Could you teach computer class without a computer? For Owura Kwadwo Hottish, 33, an information and communications technology teacher in Ghana, it's his only option. At the middle school where he ...