Last week I introduced the super keyword in my AP Computer Science class. Actually, it came up in the book a few weeks back, but it suddenly became relevant because it appeared on a quiz. And naturally in class someone asked if you could use super.super to get to the grandparent. Instead of answering, I [...]
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4 Nov
Whiteboarding
Like most teachers of abstract ideas, I whiteboard a lot. I also use screen broadcasting to let students see my screen while I mouse, click, type, and talk. It’s important to do both of these things and to switch between them. In fact, I rearranged my classroom to make it natural for me to be [...]
7 Sep
What Can You Do With This: Fortune
One of my long-time favorite bloggers from back when I was a math teacher, Dan Meyer, whose blog dy/dan deservedly blew up and won hella awards a couple years ago, does this cool thing called WCYDWT. It stands for “What Can You Do With This” and in these posts he puts up a photo or [...]
21 Aug
The Weight of Grades
As we stumble our way into the future of technology in education, I’ve had the opportunity to meet some interesting people who have pushed me to think carefully about what I do. Last year it was Mark Gross, the CEO of School Loop, who caught my attention in a conversation about grading. While his web-based [...]
6 Mar
Test Me
So we’re working on some JavaScript stuff, and a student calls me over with a question. She wants to know why clicking a link that she’s wired up with an onClick also causes the browser to open a new Explorer window. I ask her if she happened to set an a href to [...]
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