October 2022

I have found very few lazy students in my teaching career. What I have found are disengaged students, who find no connection between their lives and the material they have to learn.That’s why I always strive for two things in my approach: immediately engaging material (say Minecraft, for instance), and a project chosen by the […]

I know all the arguments about “preparing for the future” (which is now, by the way), getting tech jobs, the value of computational thinking, digital literacy et al. And they’re all relevant and true. But here’s my take, as a former English teacher. I’ll explain why that’s relevant. No one ever questions that all students