Guest Blogger: Doug Bergman Shares His Reflection on Using GameUp in Computer Science
January 23, 2013
Doug Bergman is a teacher at Porter-Gaud School in Charleston, South Carolina. He’s been teaching for almost 20 years, the majority of that in Computer Science. Since my first day of teaching, I’ve led hands-on, project-based classes simply because it made sense. The best way to describe my classes would be “structured, but chaotic with a side order of energy”. I got my B.S. from Clemson University & M.A. from University of South Carolina. I bring a unique perspective to education as I am a product of 12 years in the public school world, but have spent the last 20 years in the independent school world, plus a few years in industry. I’ve attended school as a student while living in France and I’ve taught school while living in Japan, so I’ve experienced education in a wide variety of ways. Additionally, I’ve traveled extensively in over 23 countries. Students in one of our computer science classes have perhaps the coolest homework assignment EVER! They are required to find and play games on BrainPOP . They actually have to analyze them in more than 25 dimensions. Why? To find out the elements of what makes a good game, especially educational games…. Read the Rest»
