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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 Are We Going Back To (bricks and mortar) School?
That’s the question my students asked the most yesterday. We’re in our fourth week of remote emergency teaching and I think it is starting to wear on most of us...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Living in Interesting Times and Sharing Thinking
You may have noticed I didn’t post anything in this blog yesterday. Part of that is because I had to make an unexpected trip to my family’s vacation home. A neighbor...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Coding For Fun and Mental Exercise
Recently, I started reading a book about the mathematics of cryptography. (Mathematics of Secrets) Fascinating. A lot of the math is hard (to put it lightly) for...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Three Weeks of Teaching From Home
two of my international students have returned home to China. I spent some time talking to one of them after class today.It was interesting to talk to someone in...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Please Blog About Your Emergency Remote Teaching
It seems like there are a large number of long Twitter treads where educators are reporting their experiences and how their school is handling this period of emergency...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–What about Cheating?
The College Board has been making some moves to make it harder to cheat on Advanced Placement exams. Given that their business plan relies a lot of the integrity...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Changing How We Think About School
What my school is doing is trying to replicate the brick-and-mortar model in the online world. Other schools are doing something more like “correspondence school...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 11–Is this our new normal?
Well. we’re definitely going to stay online until May. Our last week in April is a vacation week. I am hoping it still is. What will May bring? I have no idea.Teachers...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 10B–Plan? What Plan?
When administration announced we were moving to remote teaching I started adjusting my plans. Now understand that when the semester started I had a plan for every...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 10A –I'm One of the Lucky Ones
There has been a lot in the news about schools being closed and how schools are dealing with it. There seems to be everything for regular online synchronous teaching...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 10–When Remote is Really Remote
For the last several years I have had international students in some of my classes. Most from China but also South Korea, Viet Nam, and Cambodia. This year I have...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 9–Students Backchanneling
My good friend and peer teacher, Tom Indelicato and I share a morning homeroom. It’s online now of course but we join early and stay late to touch base with each...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 8–Online Teaching Stations
We sure are learning a lot about online classes these days. Teachers at my school are using Google Meet and Zoom in about equal numbers. This means that students...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 7
Well this is the new normal I guess. We had snow last night and several students missed homeroom this morning. I am assuming it is because of power outages in the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 6
Boring post title I know. But I am not really concerned about attracting eyes in these crazy time. Over the weekend I found out that my international students (two...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 5
As one of my co-workers put it it's been a long year this week. I might ease up on that easier say a long month this week. It sure has been a learning experience...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 4
I have no idea how long or how consistently I will be writing these posts. I guess when I have something to say. In some ways I think of this as a sort of record...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 3
I miss my students. It’s hard talking and not seeing or hearing any reactions. Are they getting my jokes? Even polite laughter and pretending I am funny would be...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 2
My advisory (homeroom) was interesting. For one thing I realized that thee isn’t the chatter between students in the room. I’m pretty sure they are texting and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson