During the summer, I taught a computer science course for educators at the Krause Center for Innovation at Foothill College. Funded by Google’s CS4HS grant, this was a four-day intensive “crash course ...
Walk into my introductory computer science classroom this fall and you will notice that the guys outnumber the girls. Of the 40 male students, a show of hands indicates that about half have declared ...
Kimberly Oakes, a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute lecturer, right, helps Questar III STEM High School student Sarah Sweet, left, learn how to program a robotic arm on Aug. 2, 2023. Robotics is one of ...
Standing room only. That's a phrase not often associated with a computer science class, but it describes what's on the verge of happening in Northwestern Engineering's popular computer science course ...
Computer science is too often defined by what it’s not. Students, teachers, and administrators frequently characterize computer science as a discipline dominated by people who stare at screens, ...
Grace Vanden Heuvel takes math courses online just for fun. She also likes to play music, especially percussion — “anything I can hit, bang or make noise out of.” She's even written a few of her own ...