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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
When Do We Teach Debugging?
I spent some time debugging student code today. Actually I spend a lot of time debugging student code these days. It is not something I mind at all. I see it as...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 4 March 2013
Last week was school vacation week. Like a lot of teachers I spent the week catching up on things around the house. For me that meant spending a coup[le of days...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2013 CSTA Annual Conference Registration Open
Just announced via the CSTA member email system – registration is now open for this summer’s Annual CSTA conference. Some great sessions in the line up. Something...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Most Schools Don’t Teach
Code.org has released their highly anticipated video to encourage more people, especially students, to learn how to code for computers. It’s one of the better videos...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 25 February 2013
School vacation week for me this week. Trying to get some work done around the house, relax a bit, grade a bunch and of course plan for the rest of the semester...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Looking At Curriculum From Different Angles
My job at Microsoft was to promote the use of Microsoft tools for computer science education. It was a great job and I was promoting tools that I had and that I...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Obama Endorses Programming Classes in High School
On one hand this is great. The President of the United States promotes computer science education. On the other hand he talks about it primarily as a vocational...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Friendly Survey of Programming Languages
I was sitting around thinking about high school computer science curriculum last night when the idea of a programming languages survey course came to mind. I’m...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
I Can Look That Up For You
One of the things that has happened over the last few years is that I have learned what I needed on a just in time basis. That is to say that rather than trying...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 18 February 2013
Another snowy weekend in New Hampshire for me. Not a bad thing as I had a lot of grading to catch up on. But today is a holiday for my school (Washington's Birthday)...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Drive Fear Out of the Classroom
Many years ago I was privileged to take the famous four day course taught by W Edwards Deming. Deming is widely credited with turning around the Japanese manufacturing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Throw Out The Usual Suspects
Anyone who has spent time in a classroom knows that there are some students, usually a small number, to take up most of the class participation. It’s not that they...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Beware the Scaffold That Becomes Crutch
This year I am experimenting with scaffolding to help students get started with projects. For example I started one group with a project to calculate BMI (BodyDescaffolding...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science - Part of English Baccalaureate
There is some good news from the UK in that Computer Science is going to be part of English Baccalaureate (secondary school) program there. The Ministry of Education...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Making Money or Making a Difference
I found this very interesting info graphic (OK Doug Peterson tweeted the link so really he found it first) from Seattle University at Training in Technology: The...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Principles–An Update
The About the Program page for the CS Principles, A New First Course in Computing website has some updated documents since the last time I visited it. Of particular...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 11 February 2013
Last week was a great one for me. It ended with a massive snowstorm that hit New Hampshire Friday though Saturday. I love snow and we haven’t had as much as I would...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Improvisational Teaching
Yesterday I had a situation where several students were playing catch up after absences and the rest of the class had finished a programming exercise sooner than...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Swapping Values The Tricky Way
Last week my friend Tom Indelicato who talking to his Advanced Placement Computer Science students about sorting. As is necessary this involved talking about how...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson