I’m joking. I taught grade 8 math for a short period and felt like I’d arrived at the very heart of school, so it’s not surprizing that people who do this all the time are the very ones who begin from the inside to think about a completely different way of ‘doing school’.

Because Dan and Co. are doing nothing less than that – re-thinking how we do school.

Still, I’m frustrated that I still haven’t found a community of language or social science teachers who are doing something similar to what is happening here.

Tangentially, what do you do for Google? Not sure if you can talk about it on your blog or not.

I’m under a NDA but I can tell you (broadly) that my team is working on the application of computational thinking principles (particularly as described in Jeanette Wing’s 1996 paper) to classroom math instruction. Some of those application involve the Python programming language. Others don’t. It’s been interesting but I’m not sure how much airplay it’ll get here, even after my employment there ends in July.

Tangentially, what do you do for Google? Not sure if you can talk about it on your blog or not.

Thanks, again!