Author Archives: Joseph Kmoch

On December 11, 2013, Governor Scott Walker signed into law Act 63 (aka SB 51), which among other things requires 3 years of math and science for high school graduation. This law also allows 1 year of computer science to … Continue reading →

Although there are some signs that the number of women involved in computing such as software engineers has been increasing, an engineer at Pinterest, Tracy Chou, has discovered that based on 107 companies, that number is about 12%,  roughly half … Continue reading →

Mark Guzdial wrote a great blog on October 28, 2013 on his excellent Computing Education Blog entitled “A Theory for why there’s so little CS Ed in the US”. http://computinged.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/a-theory-predicting-when-computing-education-will-reach-us-high-schools/ In the second section entitled “Why is there so little … Continue reading →

STEM 2.0 – Transformational Thinking about STEM for Education and Career Practitioners. Jim Brazell, international speaker with two decades of experience leading innovative design projects in education, technology and business innovation, published this in July, 2013. He addressed the STEM … Continue reading →

The article by Robert N Charette, contributing editor of IEEE Spectrum, posted on their site on August 30, 2013 has certainly drawn much interest. I and colleagues of mine do look at this issue much differently. The “shortage”as defined in … Continue reading →

Very recently a contributing editor of IEEE Spectrum, Robert N Charette, wrote an article entitled “The STEM Crisis is a Myth” < http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-is-a-myth> posted on August 30, 2013 Note: This blog post is very US-centric, though Charette does have links … Continue reading →

I had an opportunity to briefly address a group of professionals in business organizations who are part of an Advisory Board for a local high school that I’m involved with. The school has a CS/IT focus. I used Cameron Wilson’s … Continue reading →

In the May, 2013 issue of Wired magazine, there was an article entitled “In the Programmable World, All our Objects will Act as One”.  It’s about the ubiquitous electronic devices that collect data on us and our environment in so … Continue reading →

Cybersecurity, Computational Thinking, Computer Science and STEM were the foci of SIGCT (Computing Teacher) activities at the recent ISTE Annual Conference in San Antonio, June 23-26, 2013. ISTE 2013 (The International Society for Technology in Education) had about 17,000 attendees … Continue reading →