In my former life, I was a web application developer. I stopped doing that full-time in 2007 when I transitioned to teaching full-time. Obviously, in the intervening 16 (!) years, things have changed.

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Learning how to code in San Francisco has become as hip as learning to how to DJ or eating $4 toast. From investment bankers to artists, everyone wants to beef up a skill that now seems as necessary ...

I get concerned when I visit a classroom teacher website that has bumblebees flying across the screen, leaves falling, scrolling ribbons of text waving about, and annoying music clips that play ...

Entering a computer science profession is a more accessible goal than ever. A university-level education is available with a few clicks, at times from a distinguished school such as Harvard University ...

If you follow the dictate that we teach what we test, it’s understandable why schools haven’t spent more time preparing students to be web literate since NCLB was passed. In 1998, a 15-year-old high ...

MILPITAS, Calif. — When Kevin Jenkins wanted to teach his fourth-grade students at Spangler Elementary here how to use the Internet, he created a site where they could post photographs, drawings and ...