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Zachary Flower

@flower.codes

Teacher; Freelance Writer; Recovering Coder.

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That’s definitely on the list with the kids!

08.06.2025 03:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ahhhh, books! I’ve definitely got that one covered. I’m way behind my typical yearly pace.

07.06.2025 23:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

But seriously, though… I spent 15 years in Tech and genuinely don’t have an answer to that question…

07.06.2025 23:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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two men standing next to a bunk bed with the words so much room for activities above them ALT: two men standing next to a bunk bed with the words so much room for activities above them

It’s my first summer as a teacher and it feels *so* weird.

You mean I just… *don’t work* for 10 straight weeks? What the hell am I supposed to do with myself?

#edusky

07.06.2025 23:04 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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And the trolling by my students continues πŸ˜’

15.03.2025 00:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just what I needed

13.02.2025 02:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science. Your government might not support you. I do. #womeninscience

11.02.2025 20:27 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This aesthetic died far too soon πŸ˜”

11.02.2025 00:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I haven’t started season two yet, but I was a huge fan of the first one

08.02.2025 16:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I can’t recommend β€œFor All Mankind” highly enough either, definitely worth a binge or two

08.02.2025 16:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is awesome, thanks for the resource!

08.02.2025 16:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Being able to just have class outside has to be the biggest flex nearly every other discipline has over #csed

08.02.2025 01:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Had fun speaking about creating your own budget friendly, trash-picked homelab at #jeffcon today!

Super cool of my school district to put on an IT conference just for high schoolers. I would have *killed* for something like this 20 years ago.

#edusky #csed

08.02.2025 01:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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42 hours. 200+ students. Pure creativity.

At Creative Jam, teens built games, murals, music, moviesβ€”even a DIY smart treadmill & a scavenger-hunt wearable that shocks you if you're too slow to find and scan an item.

Teens are *wildly* capable when given space to create.

I love this job ❀️

#edusky

07.02.2025 15:35 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I decided to teach the TCP/IP model in an… unconventional way, today.

Instead of a standard computer-facing lecture, I thought I'd move the lesson outside and have the students adopt the roles of each layer themselves.

It was a blast! I can't wait to do it again next year.

#csed #edusky

06.02.2025 22:26 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Dear school bus drivers who stop in the middle of the intersection to physically block traffic: thank you for keeping our kids safe

04.02.2025 14:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Front Range students present bio-medical designs to NASA Front Range students are getting an out-of-this-world experience as part of NASA's "HUNCH" Program. That stands for High Schools United with Nasa Creating Hardware. Eight students from Jefferson Count...

So proud of my students, they did such a great job presenting their projects at NASA’s HRP IWS conference in Galveston this week πŸš€

#csed #edusky

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31.01.2025 02:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This just gave me some serious Window Blinds flashbacks. Remember when computers had personality?

22.01.2025 21:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Humor this accurate should be illegal

20.01.2025 23:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Probably better than I could do

20.01.2025 21:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It seems like 90% of the personal cybersecurity advice I give to my students is β€œdon’t ever, for any reason, click any link, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you’ve been… ever, for any reason whatsoever.”

#edusky

20.01.2025 15:19 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Making it work has required a lot of sacrifice from my wife and kids, but I’m really glad I took the leap as well!

I just think it’s a shame that β€œsacrifice” seems to be a required qualification to become an educator in fields as lucrative (and critical) as software development and cybersecurity.

20.01.2025 15:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My god that’s a beautiful book cover

19.01.2025 18:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The user data mining is coming from inside the house

19.01.2025 15:30 πŸ‘ 140 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
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This perfectly explains why more of my people choose industry over education, despite many of them actually *wanting* to teach.

The salary gap is so mind bogglingly wide, and the cost of living is so damn high, it can hardly even feel like a question.

#edusky #csed

19.01.2025 16:57 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You’llβ€”haveβ€”toβ€”pryβ€”myβ€”emβ€”dashesβ€”outβ€”ofβ€”myβ€”coldβ€”deadβ€”hands.

18.01.2025 15:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

want

15.01.2025 19:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Looks like even GitHub Classroom isn't immune to floating point arithmetic errors πŸ™ƒ

#csed #edusky

09.01.2025 15:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have them matching up descriptions and protocols with the appropriate OSI layer (i.e. TCP with Transport).

It seems counterintuitive, but the more I break them away from the computers, the better they seem to internalize the concepts.

08.01.2025 18:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I took over a high school CS program thats literally decades old. I feel really lucky to have the space and resources that I do!

08.01.2025 18:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0