Mitch Resnick is the Founder of the Lifelong Kindergarten program at the MIT Media Lab, and one of the creators of Scratch. Scratch is an inherent programming language that makes it easy for children of all ages to create their own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art, and share their creations on the web (Intro [...]

The words “chemistry” and “polymers” strike fear into the hearts of high school students, so when the challenge presented itself to create an innovative week-long summer chemistry camp for elementary school children, Pam Yates and I had decided to “go hard or go home (to Atlee High School where we are science teachers)” to create [...]

I have a young son who enjoys the great sport of football, and I am a high school teacher of Computer Science. The two facts are normally not related, so for the sake of time I am not going to explain how I was tasked to create a video about the K – 8th grade football [...]

I have been Scratch-ing with LEGO WeDo kits, and my high school level students absolutely love it! The LEGO® Education WeDo™ robotics kit is normally ear-marked as an elementary school product, and Scratch was developed by MIT for young children to be able to program, but the combination of the two has tapped the interest of my [...]

There is a fabulous survey from the University of Phoenix called Education Nation Learner Profile Assessment which asks you a series of painless and animated survey questions generates a profile of your learning style: After completing the learner assessment exercise on: http://www.phoenix.edu/cmp/education-nation/online-assessment.html I did an additional survey on having my students rank their percentages HIGHEST to [...]

Forensic Computer Science (or Computer Forensics) looks at digital information like other forensic investigations “with the aim of identifying, preserving, recovering, analyzing and presenting facts and opinions about the information” “Forensic Computer Science and Hacking are basically the SAME, except when you discuss the question of Custody.” – Michael Ruiz, VCU Digital information is literally, virtually [...]

CD-ROM discs, DVD discs, and Blu-ray Discs look the same to the naked eye, but are drastically different when you compare the discs at the sub-microscopic level and explore the laser technologies that read their optical information. When it comes to Optical Storage, there are 3 general types: CD-ROMs (read-only-memory) are commercial grade discs and use [...]

How is the world feeling or reports worldwide in the past few hours? Jonathan Harris gives a talk about Visual Observations of the Web at TED Talks and describes them as “Passive Observations.” The We Feel Fine Project scans the world’s blogs to collect snapshots and blurbs of writers’ feelings. Diameters of dots are correlated [...]

Title: Progression of the Numa Numa YouTube Description: Students learn how a simple music video released by a Former-Russian-Province Boy Band can generate a global exchange of ideas in the form of YouTube Videos. 2003 – Eastern European Band O-Zone releases a song titled “Dragostea din Tei” YouTube link (2003 link removed for licensing purposes) : [...]

In Wired Magazine July 2008 issue, in an article called “The Darkest Knight” Christopher Nolan wanted to latest Batman sequel a realistic feel with as little digital effects as possible. So far the movie is shattering box office records. So is less digital technology better is some cases? As a Computer Programming teacher, life is good [...]