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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
Final Thoughts–ISTE 2014
There is still one more day for ISTE but today was the last day for me. My brain is full and I am tired so I am ok with missing another day. ISTE is a huge conference...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Day Two–ISTE 2014
So much of what makes a conference for me is the people. I’m missed the last two ISTE conferences and it has been a while since I have seen a number of people who...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Day One–ISTE 2014
I actually got here on Friday but things started for real this afternoon. More or less. I was not able to get into one big session of mini talks because the room...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Information and Knowledge
The cartoon below by Hugh MacLeod is one of the most shared of his images on the Internet. I have to say I see something different in it every time I view it....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The More Languages Change The More They Stay The Same
One of the links in yesterday’s interesting links post was to a fun questionnaire for computer science people. Guess the Programming Language asks you to identify...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 23 June 2014
School’s out for the summer! Not that I haven’t been busy doing a lot of stuff I just haven’t had time for during the school year. And this week I am getting ready...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Things You Love Are Made With Code
Well it looks like Google is jumping into the effort to get more girls interested in computer science in a big way. Their new program is called Made with Code.From...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming as Storytelling
Code tells a story. When I hear someone talking about telling a story in code I tend to think of tools like Alice, Kodu and Scratch. After all those are tools with...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computers Don’t Do Ambiguity Well
I’ve seen several variations of the image below over the years. The last time I saw it I decided I’m going to use it with my computer science students next year...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Things We Argue About
I shared the image below on my Facebook page last week. As I write this there are ten “Likes” and nineteen comments from my friends. Over how curly braces should...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 16 June 2014
School is out! Well after lunch today school is over for the year for me and my school. I’ll miss the kids over the summer but I’m ready for a break. I plan toOffice...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
I Am Not a Bug
The term "undocumented feature" is a humorous term for something that was not planned in software. OH for sure there can be features added to a product that are...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Office Mix and Binary Numbers
One of the things I worked on this year was sharing resources with students. I uploaded all my PowerPoint presentations to our learning management system for example...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hour of Code 2014
The latest announcement from code.org hit my email inbox yeterday. Looks like they are planning for a bigger better "Hour of Code" for CS education week this fall...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Good Things Are Happening in APCS
The Advanced Placement Computer Science exam was graded last week. Well the free response part was anyway. I had a number of friends there and got some news from...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
That Was (Not) Easy
Someone mentioned in a comment somewhere (I wish I could find a link) that sometimes they create a project for students that they haven’t built themselves first...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 9 June 2014
Well my seniors are done. Graduation was yesterday. The Salutatorian had several interesting and funny things to say. Perhaps because it is a Catholic school some...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
On Being a Software Developer
Recently Mark Guzdial had a post called High school CS teachers need to read and trace code, not develop software that got me thinking along some new lines. Working...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Principles Summit–Virtually
In case you are not a CSTA member (why not?) and didn’t get the email this looks pretty interesting. In a new twist for 2014, CSTA is thrilled to invite youvirtual...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson