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Mail Call
When I went to pick up my mail the other day, there were two little white boxes waiting for me inside of an envelope. They looked like this: When I opened them up, this is what I found: A Raspberry...
View ArticleDispelling the Magic
Do you remember this commercial? When it came out a few years ago it caused quite a stir because it laid bare the dramatic changes to reality that the advertising industry was causing. It brought to...
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Code . Create . Communicate
My ideas about teaching teaching and learning are changing. They are becoming broader and including more room for coding and creating in all sorts of ways. That doesn’t mean I’m throwing away...
View Article“The Wizards of the Future”
I know this has been making the rounds on twitter and other places, but I thought it was worth reposting if you haven’t seen it. Is it marketing? Absolutely. Is this a bad thing? I don’t think so. I...
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Making is Hard
The students in my class are discovering something this year: making things is hard. As I’ve been tweeting and writing about, I’ve managed to secure two 3D printers for my classroom this year. I’ve...
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Coding is just Storytelling
About 10 years ago I learned enough javacript and html to be dangerous. Of course, the first lessons that I had were from a 16 year old high school kid in our building who wrote his own html by hand...
View ArticleDemand for Computer Science is Up. Way Up
An interesting, none too technical (lots of pretty graphs) pdf presentation about the rapidly increasing demand for computer science programs in colleges across the US. Not only is the demand for...
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Tech Ninja
This post goes alongside the previous one that I had written about the kids in my classroom having weak tech skills. I’ve decided to start a training program in my classroom for some of these basic...
View ArticleThe Limits of Pedagogy
I haven’t written much in this space lately. I spent a lot of my last school year looking at my classroom practices, seeing what I’ve done in the past, and putting that up against much of what I was...
View Article“Linux is about Imagination..”
I’m spending some of my free time this summer playing on the command line of my Raspberry Pi, learning to pull together some Linux code and growing a few programming skills in that environment. A...
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