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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
Credentials or Knowledge
The ever interesting Will Richardson got me thinking again today. He talks about how to credentialize learning in a post titled An Open Mind (In Higher Ed at Least)...
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Does Your Computer Lab Scare Away the Girls?
The Internet is as the same time one of the great distractions and great spontaneously learning environments in history. As I looked at my twitter stream I sawTEDxSeattle...
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Teachers Don
I was invited to be on a panel at Northeastern University (I was a last minute fill-in but happy to attend) talking about Teaching With Technology. Now the difference...
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K-12 Computing Teachers Workshop
The Computer Science Teachers Association sent out an announcement about an upcoming workshop hosted in Partnership with the Anita Borg Institute for Women and...
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Visual Studio 2010 Now Available
Well it is official
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Interesting Links 12 April 2010
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Is Computer Science Too Big For One Degree
For a number of years I have been on an industry advisory for the computer science & engineering department at Taylor University. In one of my early discussions...
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Barriers and Strategies for K-12 Computer Science Teachers
An interesting new report from Anita Borg Institute, CSTA and the University of Arizona called
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2010 US Imagine Cup Community Showcase
Please join Microsoft for the 2010 US Imagine Cup Community Showcase The US Imagine Cup team would like to extend an invitation to you...
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The Last Bug
I spent much of yesterday working on a computer program. A friend of mine wrote it in Visual Basic .NET and I was converting it to C# so that it could be used as...
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Interesting Links 5 April 2010
Words matter. One set of words that come up in discussion are
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Everything Is Changing in CS Education
There seems to be a lot of agreement that we need to change the way we teach computer science, especially at the pre-collegiate level. Not complete unanimity of...
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Resources for Teaching Binary Numbers
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Exploring Problem-Solving Processes with Smithsonian and Microsoft
Something for the wider education community. I think we need to do more to teach problem-solving and critical thinking through out the curriculum so this online...
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Playing Video Games Will Not Get You a Job But Creating One Might
Last week I had a chance to hear Larry Hryb (AKA Major Nelson) of the Xbox Live team talk to a group of college students at Microsoft
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Interesting Links 29 March 2010
In yet another example of how poorly I do at predicting what is going to be interesting and/or controversial almost no one read and absolutely no one commentedcompanies...
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Where does Computer Science Belong?
To some extent Computer Science is the red headed step child of K-12 education. It just doesn
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Curriculum, Companies, Cooperation and Conflict
Where does curriculum come from? Where should it come from? What involvement should industry in general have in creating curriculum? These are all questions suggested...
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Ada Lovelace Day 2010
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From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson