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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
New Hampshire TechFest 2010
I spent most of Saturday at the New Hampshire TechFest at Windham High School. NH Tech Fest is a Satellite Event of the USA Science and Engineering Festival which...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Class or Computer Science Class
There is much too much confusion about the difference between a
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
President Obama Recognizes Science Superstars
Earlier this week President Obama hosted the winners of a number of major STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) competitions. Two of the students who...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Finding a Place For Computer Science Education
While I spend a lot of time, some of it laying awake at night, thinking about the state of pre-collegiate computer science education it seems like many more people...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Introducing the Microsoft US Academic Bloggers
I'm part of a group of people at Microsoft who work with academics all across the country. A number of them have active blogs and I thought this might be a good...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 18 October 2010
Well things are heating up with the Imagine Cup. Last week was the round one entry for the fall round of the game and Software Development invitational. Lots of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
FIRST Women in Science and Technology Forum (WIST) - November 5, 2010
FIRST, the people who bring us a whole range of robotics competitions and more, are once again hosting their annual FIRST Women in Science & Technology Forum. The...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kodu Kamp for Educators
OK so you know I am a big fan of Kodu. Perhaps you read about the Kodu workshop I did for students last weekend. Perhaps you just heard about Kodu from some random...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What does your school need?
The What Our School Needs contest is being run by the Bing team at Microsoft. You are using Bing for your Internet search needs right? Well even if not (and you...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kodu Programming For Kids
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From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What are you using?
I blog about a lot of resources here and I
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 11 October 2010
Yesterday was 10/10/10 which a lot of geek types had fun with. Of course 101010 in binary is 42 in decimal and 42, according to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Small Basic Curriculum
Small Basic is, in my opinion, one of the really cool platforms for introducing programming to younger students. A simple IDE, a simple subset of BASIC, and built...
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Running On Empty
The ACM and CSTA (Computer Science Teachers Association) released a report this week called
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Should Johnny Learn to Program?
Last week I shared a link on Facebook - Why Johnny Can't Program: A New Medium Requires A New Literacy
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 4 October 2010
What a week. On Friday I gave a keynote talk at the 16th Annual Technology and Learning Conference at Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania. WhatTwitter...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Would you play this game?
I love puzzles and small little programming projects. When you can combine those two at get a project that you can use for a good learning/teaching experience it...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 27 September 2010
Last week I wrote a post about the Imagine Cup. (Imagine Cup–Solving the Worlds Problems Through Software) A couple of things I should have mentioned about it though...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Imagine Cup
There are many indications that today
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson