Feb 19, 2018 | CS Education, CS50AP, LincolnSudbury
This year, I’m teaching AP Computer Science Principles for the first time, using Harvard’s CS50 curriculum. One of the CS50 assignments is called Fifteen, and in this assignment students program the computer to play a digital version of the game with fifteen little...
Jan 27, 2018 | CS Education, LincolnSudbury
The Boston Herald ran an article this week that began: State education leaders are planning to make computer science a core course for high school students, which they’d need to complete to graduate and a requirement for college admission, as part of an effort to meet...
Dec 17, 2017 | CS50AP, LincolnSudbury
I finally finished (after 18 months) the CS50 EdX course. I started it when I decided to use much of its contents in teaching my AP Computer Science Principles course at Lincoln Sudbury. It was hard to find time to finish all the projects – the...
Oct 9, 2017 | CS50AP, LincolnSudbury
In 1999 I taught my first programming course. I used a programming environment called Microworlds Logo, and my curriculum was on a floppy disk full of Word documents written by the teacher who taught the class the previous year. This year, I’m teaching a new...
Sep 23, 2017 | Technology
Yesterday I picked up my Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE (black stainless 42mm) at my local Apple Store. The setup was smooth, including getting the watch connected to Verizon. I played with it a little yesterday, sending some texts with my phone off. This morning,...
Sep 17, 2017 | LincolnSudbury
Lincoln Sudbury recently created a Google Calendar for LS Events. You can add this calendar to your iPhone and Mac calendars as well, but the process is a little complicated. First follow the directions in the email you got. the Academic Council has created a...
Jun 18, 2017 | CS50AP, LincolnSudbury
I spent the past week in Kansas City, Missouri reading the AP Computer Science Principles exam. “Reading” is a euphemism for “grading”, and I graded somewhere between 300 and 400 student responses over the past week. I’ll write here...
Apr 3, 2017 | LincolnSudbury, Technology
Apple notified me today that I’ve been selected to join the Apple Distinguished Educators class of 2017. To enter myself into consideration I had to write a few things about myself and also make a two minute video about how I use Apple stuff in my teaching work...
Oct 15, 2016 | LincolnSudbury
This past week, I spent three days visiting High Tech High in San Diego with four other teachers and administrators from Lincoln Sudbury RHS. Our high school is in the early stages of building an Innovation Center, and we are looking for good ideas wherever we can...
