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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
Are you learning fast enough?
Erik Meijer is one of the awesome people I get to meet while I worked at Microsoft. Earlier today he tweeting something that really made me think. If you don't...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming Languages for Middle School
There may be quick questions but are there any quick answers? I had the following Tweet recently. @alfredtwo Hi Alfred! Quick question: what prog. language...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Do You Know It Works?
I have been teaching Visual Basic programming to my freshmen this week. It’s part of a course we call Explorations in Computer Science and its new this year. The...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
TEALS (Technology Education and Literacy in Schools) Looking for Partner Schools
TEALS is an interesting program started by a Microsoft employee some years ago. It taps the enthusiasm and expertise of industry professionals who work with classroom...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Announcing DyslexicGamemakers.com
Know any dyslexic students who are interested in creating video games and build some skills? They may find this announcement interesting. We are proud to announce...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Is Computer Science According To Search Engines
Inspired by an image I saw from a talk by Dr. Tom Crick (@DrTomCrick) I decided to see what the more popular search engines returned as search aids when a user...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 2 December 2013
It was a short work week for me last week. Well as far as school was concerned. Only two days. I spent no time the rest of the week on school work. Not a completely...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Fun With Meme Generator
Some things are hard to stop once you start. I’ve been having some fun with a site called memegenerator.net A couple of my attempts are below. I first used it for...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How is Computer Science NOT a 21st Century Skill
I had to do this. I really did. I am so tired of schools claiming that they are teaching 21st century skills (what ever that means) but not offering a computer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hour of Code Update 26 November 2013
The Hour of Code events for CS Ed Week is shaping up to be really big. Are you involved? Here's an update I got from the founder of code.org this week. We announced...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 25 November 2013
Starting of this post made me realize that we are exactly a month away from Christmas. I need to get going on shopping for my wife’s presents. I’m running out of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Opportunity Matters
I was having a conversation with my friend Ken Royal today. I was sharing with him some of the experiences I was able to have over the last couple of years meeting...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSEdWeek poster featuring Susan Wojcicki, Google
Passing this along from the CSTA announcement mailing list. It surprises me that women in the computer field were not more willing to take part in this effort by...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
We Need a Grant Program for Teachers to Attend the CSTA Conference
I had a thought spawned by a comment on a recent blog post and some conversations I have had recently. I wish there was a grant program to give attendance funding...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Problem With i
I had an interesting problem from a student the other day. He was working his way though an array in a couple of places and one of them was doing something wrong...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA 2014 Board of Directors Nominations Open
Since this past summer I have been a member of the CSTA Board of Directors (thanks again to all of you who voted for me). It’s been an interesting and rewarding...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 18 November 2013
I made a quick trip to Tucson AZ over the weekend for the CSTA Board meeting. Beautiful part of the country and I wish I had more time to explore it. But meeting...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Doing Code Right The Second Time
Last week I wrote a program. I wrote about it on this blog (Making Magic With Software) but only about what was visible to the user. This week I decided to show...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Google Code-in 2013
This went out to the CSTA Member mailing list tonight. Thought it was worth sharing. Beginning Monday, November 18th, 13-17 year old pre-university studentsgoogle...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson