As an educator, this may be the first time you are delivering online classes but the COVID-19 situation made you adapt to the new normal on the fly. You are doing your best to keep your students on track academically while also managing assessments and tests. Having one-to-one conversations with…

Are you an educator who is using Zoom to teach your students virtually but worried about its security and privacy issues? Do you wonder if there are any better and safer alternatives to Zoom that you could use for conducting your virtual classes? The good news is that there are…

You might also have your favorite niché methodologies. Mines include Common Criteria, Test Driven Development, and Model-Driven Development. They are all around for quite some time (sometimes decades), and all of them in the through of disillusionment for quite a while. Yet a couple of professionals (including me) practice them…

Someone asked the question about how programming is different today than 20–30 years ago. I was thinking about it and identified a lot of differences. Here are my thoughts on it. There are some advancements in the field, but programming is still not a profession in the sense that you…

Any profession worth the name of profession when it can be done safely. In software development, an error can cost millions of dollars (see the Starliner mishap), or hundreds of lives (Boeing 737MAX, and we are still talking about just one company). …

Every child has the ability within them to be creative, and this may manifest itself in many different ways. The role of the teacher is crucial in providing a safe environment where a child feels as though they are able to express their creativity, explore it, and understand its significance…

Creativity is an important part of the new venture creation process.It’s fundamental to generating ideas and identifying opportunities, so, What is creativity, and how can we define it? A creative person typically has the ability to uncover patterns that others can’t. In other words, they see the world differently to others, including the relationship between things others might consider…

What is student data? You may not think of empowerment when you think of data but when used effectively data can give you the full picture needed to support the incredibly important education goals of parents, students, educators and policymakers. That said, there’s a lot that must happen before data…