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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 Wrong With This Picture?
Are all I.T. Guys <sic> white males?INFOGRAPHIC - What Do IT People Really Do All Day? I'd hang this in my classroom if there were some women and some non-white...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 10 February 2014
A lot of people seem the be ready for spring. I’m enjoying the snow in my yard and around the area. Inspired in part by the Winter Olympics going on my family and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are We Going To Learn How To Do That?
The other day I was demonstrating some things to my programming students. We’re at the very beginning of a new semester and students are learning the very basics...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Software Is Empowering
Microsoft ran their first ever Super Bowl commercial over the weekend. While it is obviously a advertisement for Microsoft and Microsoft products I see it as an...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 3 February 2014
Starting the second week of a new semester today. Last week was interesting. It was a major adjustment because with a new group of students I had to reset my expectations...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Has An Identity Problem
Where does computer science fit? At the university level I’ve seen it in Business departments/Schools of Business. I’ve seen it in various science schools – Schools...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA Announces a new K-12 Administrator Impact Award
Great new program from CSTA and code.org. We sometimes forget that administrators can have a huge role in promoting and developing computer science programs in....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 27 January 2014
New semester starts for me today. Brand me (to me) batch of students in two sections of Explorations in Computer Science and one section of Honors Programming.Why...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Do Comedy and Coding Have in Common?
Timing. OK maybe not the most funny joke in the world but I’ve been dealing with timing window problems in student programs all week long. A lot of my students...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Using The Technology We Preach
Habits die hard. I printed out some end of year surveys for my students to fill out about me (as teacher) and the courses they were finishing last week. Because...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 20 January 2014
It’s the calm before the storm for me. Tomorrow starts semester exams at my school and I’ll be busy this week grading semester projects. I’m a huge fan of end of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Registration Now Open for the 2014 CSTA Annual Conference
If you are a K-12 computer science educator there is one must attend professional development conference during the year. That is the CSTA Annual Conference. Sure...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Reverse Bell Curve In Programming Projects
I have some 60+ students working on end of semester projects these days. I have one section of Honors Programming and two sections of Explorations in Computer Science...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Nominations for the CSTA Board of Directors 2014 Election
Are you an active member of the Computer Science Teachers Association and looking to get more involved? The CSTA Board is a working board that develops policy for...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teachers and Role Models in CS Education
There was an interesting bit of chatting going on over Twitter about the importance of teachers as role models over the weekend. A lot of people think that having...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 13 January 2014
Highlight this week? Free and inexpensive books! And some links to interesting news and discussions about women and others in AP CS classes. And more so read through...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Apply Now For Computer Science Principles Summit
The Computer Science Teachers Association just announced the Computer Science Principles Education Summit and applications are now open for the 50 available spots...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Student Hackathons in California
I get email from people pushing blog post ideas all the time. Several a week generally. Some of them are completely off topic for this blog. Some are close in that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Simplify, Simplify, Simplify
It is amazing how often students write many lives of code when a few lines would work better. There are several reasons, I think, why this happens. One is of course...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson