Education

We need to change how we teach kids to program

This is the essay I wrote for my application to Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.

Robots for Education: So Many Choices!

The sheer number of educational robots available for teachers today can be overwhelming.

Robot Turtles: a formal introduction for educators

With standards alignment and recommendations for the classroom

Fast facts

Number of players: listed as 2–5, but can be played by 1 player or a…

Who is Robot Owl for?

There are no education technology experts out there. It’s just people like us.

With anything new, it can be tricky to know who it’s for. And so it is with Robot Owl, our guide to sparking children’s passion for…

How the Tao’s concept of “unlearning” makes me a better teacher

Poems from the Tao Te Ching that I use…

These 16 coding puzzles take children from zero to high school-level programming

A lesson sequence using the boardgame Robot Turtles

No, you don’t need a screen to learn to code. Robot Turtles is how.

How a remarkable board game…