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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
Complicated Solutions To Simple Problems
I found this on the Internet today via Twitter.It works. Well more or less. I can imagine cases where it might not but they include other problems. It’s not very...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 7 September 2015
Labor Day weekend in the US. A four day weekend and I am exhausted from it. Maybe I need to get back to school to rest up. OK not really but it has been a busyCSTA...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA Now Accepting Applications for Cutler-Bell Prize
This is not your ordinary high school CS student prize. “Four winners will be selected annually and each will be awarded a $10,000 prize and cost of travel to the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Call for proposals now open for the 2016 CSTA Annual Conference
It seems like I just got back from the 2015 CSTA Annual Conference but time marches on and the call for proposals for next summer’s conference was just released...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
NCWIT Aspirations in Computing 2016
It’s that time again! Visit the website at https://www.aspirations.org/ for more information but I have included some details to get you thinking. From the web2016...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 31 September 2015
Well school is back for real now. I had students in class most of last week so we’re completely live. I have great students. My Honors Programming class has aWhy...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are You Ever Really Ready?
Last year I changed (improved I hope) every PowerPoint deck I used based on how the presentation when and how I realized I could make things more clear. Over the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 24 August 2015
I meet my freshmen today! Yeah! I am excited. I’m pretty sure I’m ready. I’ve even got a new LCD projector. Although as someone pointed out it is a little sad that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How I Spent My Summer Break From School
I'm in school today - first day back for teachers. I guess that means that summer is over for me. Every fall and through the year I always tell myself that I’mSimpleK12...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
So You Think You Want To Be A Computer Science Teacher?
Recently I was asked an interesting question: “if a foresighted student asked how to prepare to be a CS teacher, what advice would you give him or her?” My initial...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 17 August 2015
My summer break is almost over. Many of you are back already. Where does the time fly? Last week was interesting and I started (finally) to work on my course outlines...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Problem With Group Projects
I haven’t been at the ICER Conference but a lot of my friends are there and between their tweets and other tweets using the #icer2015 hash tag I almost feel like...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Drag and Drop Programming–Some Opinions
Seriously now! Just how many drag and drop programming languages/environments do we really need? Differences between them are small. The list I have (Drag and drop...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Projects and Recipes in Computer Science Classes
Chris Lehmann is principal of the Science Leadership Academy. “SLA is an inquiry-driven, project-based high school focused on 21st century learning “ So when I...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 10 August 2015
Interesting week last week. I spent a couple of days at Harvard (a liberal arts college in Cambridge MA) learning about their plans to adapt their famous CS 50wiki...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS50 AP–An Advanced Placement Computer Science Course from Harvard
The last few days were spent at Harvard University attending CS50 Boot camp in Cambridge (Videos of most of the talks should be at that link soon.) It was an interesting...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links–3 August 2015
I’ve been hearing about teachers headed back to school already. Many more will be starting back over the next month. Almost three more weeks of “summer” for meMicrosoft...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Musings on Blogging
Attending several conferences this summer I have talked to any number of people about this blog. Several people told me how much they appreciated the blog which...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Putting Student Programmers To Work
I love CS Teaching Tips. I follow them on Twitter and Facebook as well as visiting the web site from time to time. Full list of links at the bottom of this post...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson