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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
What’s Your Student’s Problem Solving Strategy?
I ran into this Developer’s problem solving sequence list via twitter yesterday. Google Coworkers StackOverflow RTFM Think My students seem to use something...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Vote Now! -- 2015 CSTA Board of Directors Election
My ballot, or rather the coded link to the online voting system, for the 2015 CSTA Board of Directors Election showed up in my email inbox this morning. So I voted...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA 2015 Board of Directors Elections and Proposed Bylaws Changes
The 2015 CSTA Board of Directors Elections will run from April 2, 2015 to May 4, 2015. In addition to three open positions on the Board, this year's ballot will...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Every Character Matters
My Explorations in Computer Science class is creating web pages this week. This is a fairly short unit and we don’t get very deep at all. Our hope is to give students...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 30 March 2015
March is almost over and the snow in my backyard is measured in inches not feet. So spring appears to be coming albeit a bit late. The school year is progressing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Morse Code Project
Project ideas come from all sorts of places. Textbooks, other teachers I work with, blogs, random conversations, conferences (do you know about Nifty Assignments...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
FizzBuzz Revisited
I first blogged about using FizzBuzz in the classroom four years ago when I didn’t have a classroom and students of my own to use it with. (FizzBuzz–A Programming...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Madeup: a Programming Language for Making Things Up
One of the things I have been wondering about is how to make a real connection between 3D printing and learning computer science. Sure most 3D printers are attached...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 23 March 2015
Some great links this week. Images to use in class, a video for a TV show (yes about girls computing), and lots more. One of my best collections in recent weeks...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interview Questions for Computer Science Teachers
As I looked into why several posts from a while back were getting so many page views lately I realized that search values similar to “interview questions for computer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Do You Want To Write Some Code?
OK I feel better. I was overcome with an urge to write some code. Now I have a program I should write. I want to combine my seating chart program (with pictures)...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2015 CSTA Administrator Impact Award Nominations Open
Dear CSTA Community, Nominations are currently open for the 2015 CSTA Administrator Impact Award! This prestigious award is given by CSTA to recognize an administrator...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 16 March 2015
Last week I was not at SXSWedu. There were not as many tweets about it in my stream as there were from SIGCSE. I still want to go some day though. With progress...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Choose to Code With TouchDevelop
Looks like a good chance to earn some money for school projects and introduce students to programming. Open to US public schools only unfortunately. More information...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Is the BBC’s ‘Micro Bot’ the Silver Bullet
It’s been all over social media and online news the last couple of days - BBC to give out one million 'Micro Bit' computers to get kids coding. I’m a little skeptical...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Simplify Simplify Simplify
One of the things beginners do when learning how to program is to make things more complicated then they need to be. It’s a natural thing because they often don...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How to teach Computer Science to 5-14yr Olds – #CSK8 Twitter Chat
Join CSTA K-8 task force for #CSK8 chat on Mar 11 8pm EST. Pedagogy- ‘How to teach’ Computer Science to 5-14yr olds. Not the What or Why. Discuss pair programming...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
YouthSpark Challenge for Change
Microsoft runs all sorts of competitions. Recently I read about the YouthSpark Challenge for Change. Since it is no open to 13 to 17 year olds (aka high school...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 9 March 2015
Last week was SIGCSE in Kansas City. From all reports it was a great conference. I wasn’t there but I followed as close as I could via Twitter. The twitter stream...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson