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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
Algorithms, Bias, and Beautiful Women
I've been keeping my eyes open for things to discuss with students this fall, especially in Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles. This week bias in algorithms...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
GP–A General Purpose Block Programming Language
I added GP to my list of block programming languages this morning. Mark Guzdial announced on his blog that it was available in Beta (The General Purpose Blocks)...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teach Me How To Teach
Garth Flint hits it out of the part with It is not about coding Key issue?"Although both camps were for teachers neither dealt with any pedagogy on how to teach...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA 2017–Some Thoughts
Normally I write several blog posts during a CSTA Annual Conference. Not this year. Why? Too much going on! The sessions I attended were very good and my time not...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Ethics and Computer Science Education
Are ethics and the effects of computer science a reason to teach CS to everyone? Increasingly we are seeing all sort of impacts on daily life because of computing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Teacher or Teacher of Computer Science
In some respects we have an identity problem in computer science education. Some of us think of ourselves as computer science teachers. Generally that means we...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Twitter Chat - teaching computer science away from the computer #InfyEdChat
I'm going to host a twitter chat on Monday, July 10, 5PM PT / 8PM ET. Join me to talk about teaching computer science away from the computer. Bring your ideas and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Professional Development for the Advanced CS Teacher Teaching Advanced Students
This is sort of a riff from yesterday’s post about what to teach students who are beyond the normal Advanced Placement CS level or perhaps looking to something ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Finished Advanced Placement Computer Science–Now what?
This question is now more complicated since we have two AP CS exams again. Does CS A follow CS P? Should it be one or the other but not both? But let’s put that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Many Times Can You Teach Loops?
Suppose you have students learning computer science from first grade to high school. How many times can you teach loops? Maybe you start with blocks using Scratch...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
After ISTE–More Questions Than Answers
One of the great things about ISTE is a chance to talk to people face to face. When that happens a lot of things come up. Yesterday and today, along with walking...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Coding is Not a Four Letter Word
I am at ISTE and have lost count of the times today someone said "you can program this without knowing how to code." Usually they mean this because they use a block...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ISTE 2017- A First Look
If I am seeing a theme at ISTE 2017 so far it is making. Session after session demonstrates learning by making things. No where is this more true than with computer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Student Programmer Fix This Code
Recently I came across this cartoon and shared it on Facebook.Responses were interesting. The newer one was to programming the more likely people seemed to be to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Become A Computer Science Teacher in Five Days
Garth Flint is a computer science teacher in Montana. While most computer science teachers are a bit isolated, most are the only CS teacher in their school. Garth...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Movies for Computer Science Students
Today was watch movie day. I watched two movies that I have been thinking about showing to my computer science students.The first one I watched was "The Imitation...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Micro:bit Small-board Computer Launches in U.S. & Canada
The Micro:bit (nee BBC Micro:bit) is now available in the US and Canada. This little device has been in classrooms in the United Kingdom for about a year and aprogrammable...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How To Teach Computer Science
I always read articles like this one - The 5 Worst Ways to Teach Computer Science – with some trepidation. I always expect to find out that I’m doing it all wrong...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What is the purpose of a computer science education?
One of my former students posed that question. He then asked if it were: Building computer scientists Building software engineers Building citizens Now context...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson