I'm an educator of all trades. I've taught at:
* Skidmore College's University Without Walls (distance education)
* University at Albany (SUNY)
* Hampshire College
* University Massachusetts Amherst
* Johns Hopkins CTY
I generally teach computer science and related disciplines (information science, statistics, discrete math, etc.).
I'm interested in a wide range of technology-meet-education issues:
* should very young students be using computers?
* why do teachers spend most of their computer time troubleshooting issues?
* why do most computers sit idle in the classroom?
* how can social software be used to support education?
* how can institutions possibly hope to keep up with changing technologies?!
* what mental model of the related disciplines do students have/should students develop?
* why are more introduction to computer science texts/courses really introduction to programming?
* why is programming so often taught as a top-down discipline?
* how can technology get out of the way, and let teaching happen in a technology rich classroom?
