In the months leading up to the Golden 50th SIGCSE Technical Symposium in Minneapolis, the ACM SIGCSE community nominated their favorite papers, voted on the top 20, and then top 10 best papers. The 10 top papers were officially announced and recognized in this article by ACM. The best papers…
Last week, Fred Martin (current chair of the CSTA Board and my co-conspirator on the “CT From K-12 Disciplinary Perspectives” NSF-funded effort), while speaking at a CSTA meeting in New England, presented a broadly accepted timeline of Computational Thinking (CT). Although Jeannette Wing should undoubtedly be credited for taking the…
[This article was published February 25, 2018 on EdSurge] For better or worse, computing is pervasive, changing how and where people work, collaborate, communicate, shop, eat, travel, learn and quite simply, live. From the arts to sciences and politics, no field has been untouched. The last decade has also seen…
At long last, I’m re-joining the world of blogging. Setting up this blog is my last good act to close out 2016. I’ve just about managed to complete basic setup, but I’m still experimenting with themes, header image, fonts/colors, etc., so what you see is a placeholder for now. I hope to…
