Computational Thinking: How Pat Counts Teaches Physics with Python

This is the third of an occasional interview series I’m doing of educational innovators.  You can find the whole series here. Pat Counts is a Physics teacher from Wyoming, Ohio (a city outside of Cincinnati).  We met him at the Pycon Education Summit, where we learned of his efforts to incorporate Python into his curriculum.  We’ve […]

How Brian Painter is Teaching Programming with Minecraft

A phrase I hear increasingly often is ‘I’m not a Teacher but I Teach’.  Brian Painter is representative of a group of Trinket users who don’t make their living teaching. He teaches a programming class for kids several times a year that he runs in addition to his day job. We think the way he’s […]

Hands On Teaching Technology

An Interview with Greg Garner This is the first in a series of occasional interviews of innovators in teaching & technology. I met Greg Garner, an education technologist for Eanes Independent School District in central Texas at SXSWedu in Austin earlier this year.  I’ve since come to know him as a dedicated, hand-on education technologist and a forward-thinking observer […]