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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 …
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Vicki Davis Interviews Alfred Thompson about CS Education
Vicki Davis has a wonderful podcast with interesting educators. Over the summer she interviewed me about teaching Computer Science. Topics include: How to get kids...
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CS Educator Interview: Raji Gupta
Professional Development days are often a great opportunity to meet other teachers and share idea. Even though I pass his school twice a day on my way to my school...
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CS Teacher Interview: Emmanuel Schanzer–The Update
I interviewed Emmanuel Schanzer in my last series. But like so many things, Bootstrap, the program he directs has grown and expanded. A number of teachers in this...
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CS Educator Interview: Adam Michlin
Adam and I interact mostly on Facebook where he has created a number of very active Facebook groups including one called Computer Science Educators He's a man of...
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Observations on Parents Shopping for High Schools
We had an open house for prospective students and their parents at school on Sunday. We’re a private school so getting parents to see a reason to spend the money...
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CS Educator Interview: Jackie Corricelli
Jackie Corricelli conducts Advanced Placement Computer Science summer institutes for teachers. That is how I first met here. And I learned a lot from her. She teaches...
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Computer Science Educator Interview Series Index (2017)
From time to time I like to highlight computer science teachers with virtual interviews posted on my blog. The first series was in 2013 (CS Educator Interviews:...
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CS Educator Interview: Michelle Lagos
Michelle Lagos serves on the CSTA Board which is how I first met her. She is currently an At-Large member. Several years ago she was the International Representative...
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Am I Doing It All Wrong?
My programming students are learning about methods. Functions, subroutines, what ever you want to call them they are important. Coming up with examples for demos...
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CS Educator Interview: Mike Thompson
I met Mike Thompson (no relation) just recently. He was giving a professional development session on teaching middle school students with AppInventor. I wantedWHERE...
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CSTA 2018 Conference Call for Proposals
It’s that time again! I have to get to work on a proposal. Or two. This is the best conference for computer science educators. If you have something good to share...
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CS Educator Interview: Bob Irving
Bob Irving teaches middle school students and seems to have a lot of fun doing so. He constantly learning new things to share with his students. He is half of of...
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CS Educator Interview: Vicky Sedgwick
My first teaching jobs were teaching in a pair of schools (half time in each) where I saw students from kindergarten through eight grade. It was a great learning...
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CS Educator Interview: Rebecca Dovi–the update
Rebecca Dovi is a ball of energy. She is full of ideas and always doing cool things. When I last interviewed her (http://blog.acthompson.net/2013/08/cs-educator...
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CS Educator Interview: Saber Khan
I believe I first met Saber Khan over Twitter. Since them we have interacted in a number of ways on and off line. We met face to face for the first time this past...
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Who Says There Is No Room for More Computer Science
People keep asking me what required course I would remove to make room for a required computer science course. So I decided to take a look at current requirements...
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Fear and Loathing and Required Computer Science Education
It seems like every time someone suggests that computer science be a required school subject someone (sometimes several people) bring up on particular objection...
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Designing Projects for Programming Students
Last night a teacher friend of mine gave me a USB stick with the projects he uses with his students. I have projects for C++, Python, Java, and Visual Basic from...
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Congressional App Challenge Launches Today
Something that looks interesting at least in Congressional Districts where there is a sponsor. Visit the web site to check it out. Congressional App Challenge Launches...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson