<p>Alfred Thompson talks about the trends in teaching Computer Science. Topics include:</p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">How to get kids moving as you teach programming</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">What happens when a school has every student learn Computer Science</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">How to engage young women in Computer Science Programming</li> </ul> <p> Today’s Sponsor: <a href="http://www.texthelp.com/wriq">WriQ from Texthelp</a> is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. It also incorporates rubrics so teachers can provide meaningful, qualitative feedback to encourage the writing journey.  This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard. To learn more about Wriq go to <a href= "http://www.texthelp.com/wriq">www.texthelp.com/wriq</a></p>

183: Grit in the Classroom

Jam-packed with cool classrooms, cool apps, and cool teaching ideas, full-time teacher and award-winning edtech influencer, Vicki Davis, who blogs as the Cool Cat Teacher Blog, loves to interview awesome teachers and educators from around the world on this teacher podcast.  Her goal is to interview the most in-classroom teachers on one helpful teacher podcast. This encouraging show will give you quick ideas you can use right away. You can follow Vicki @coolcatteacher on all social media and join the conversation.