Re-thinking learning for the 21st Century
Written by Adam Gregson
It’s been an eventful year, and, not surprisingly, things did not turn out as I had planned. Most of my more sobering moments revolved around teaching computer science, which I enjoy immensely but in my second year realized that my approach was a bit wrong-headed. This dovetailed with the ideas that were percolating due to […]
Written by Adam Gregson
“Name three things I’ve never used in the classroom” But I’m going to be using all three starting right after the March Break. I’ve had a great meeting with a colleague from the art department who has experience managing design projects, and he gave me lots of great resources and pointed me toward the Stanford […]
Written by Adam Gregson
Thanks to everyone who left insightful comments on my Face-to-Face post. After looking into MIT’s App Inventor 2, I’ve decided to end off the year on that platform, as it will make a great foundation for the end-of-year project, which I’d been struggling to wrap my head around. I plan on following David Wolber’s “Course […]
Written by Adam Gregson
One of the reasons I applied to attend Cohort 21 was to connect with innovative and dynamic teachers. During today’s meeting, I had the privilege of talking with several colleagues who are passionate about computing and getting their students involved in technology. We all feel that this is a core skill in the 21st century […]
Written by Adam Gregson
I am a math teacher. At least, I was until a year and a half ago when, for a variety of reasons, I volunteered to teach computer science. Since then, I have written many thousands of lines of code, mostly in Java, taken a few courses on Coursera, and racked up respectable scores on Project […]
