Now is the time to confront and fix what has been metastasizing in higher education since the advent of speech codes in the late 1980s. Teaching the ethics and consequences of civil discourse is ...

MIT's Mitchel Resnick and Natalie Rusk have warned that trying to teach kids programming using logic puzzles is like teaching people to write using crosswords. Writing in the November Communications ...

Allyson Bourke, writer of the June 24 letter, "Trump got caught," was a teacher and a shaper of young minds. Bourke exemplifies the trend in education these days of the preference for, and the ...

Ryan Seashore starts off every CodeNow workshop with a simple request: Write out step-by-step instructions for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Then a CodeNow teacher pretends to be a robot, ...

It was argued here recently by a professor of mathematics that algebra should be required of everyone in high school because it teaches how to think logically. Perhaps it does, but what an awful way ...

Teaching students about logic gates is often done in two parts, once on the whiteboard for the theory, and again on the breadboard for the practice. [shurik179] wasn’t a fan of the abstraction between ...

Product folks and engineers know what they are doing, and by and large, they — and the companies they work for — have a disproportionate amount of power about how the world is shaped. Over a 13-week ...