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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
NCWIT Award for Aspiration in Computing 2012 Reminder
Time for a reminder. Now that school has been underweight for a while you may have identified some young women who would be good candidates for the NCWIT Award....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are Your Students Whiteboard Ready?
One of my former students is the CTO of a startup these days. He posted today about the need for all of the employees of his company to be “whiteboard ready.” His...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Layers and Layers
Several years ago a teacher asked me to help with a problem one of her students was having. The student had decided to combine all of the semester’s projects into...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 8 October 2012
It’s the Columbus Day holiday in the US. Or as we call it in my family Leif Landed First day. Either way a lot of schools have a holiday today. I’m traveling today...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Problem With Courses
Lots of interesting side comments come up during some curriculum discussions. At a recent meeting of the CS 2013 task force one of the committee members made a...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Real Disruption of 3D Printing
The latest “disruption” people seem to be talking a lot about is 3D printing. A lot of the attention has been caused by a group of people calling themselves Defense...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Omnibus Software (and hardware)
I have several “Swiss Army” type tools. You know the ones with all the different blades, screw drivers and pliers in one tool. They are ok for simple tasks but...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Certified or Qualified
Certification is a hot topic for K-12 computer science educators. It’s a big issue in public schools but not so much in private schools. The concern in privateAm...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Debugging is Good For Learning
I was going to title this post “I love debugging” because, well, I do love debugging code. For me that is one of the most fun puzzle solving mind challenging things...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 1 October 2012
Well it’s a new month. It’s been about three weeks in this location (for the blog) and I sure do appreciate how many people stuck with me over the move. Seems like...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Find The Bug
The big problem I have with using professional quality sample code in class is that it is too professional. By that what I mean is that it is too complete and often...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Creativity In Computer Science
I was reading a blog post titled Creating creative portfolios by Deepa Muralidhar the other day that really got me thinking of this whole notion of creativity in...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What About Small Data?
This is an other post along the lines of We Are Making Things Too Hard more than the more obvious Thinking About Databases. And there may perhaps be a bit of old...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Ruth Hartsook’s CS Teaching Resources
Ruth Hartsook posted links to some interactive web based teaching resources on the Advanced Placement Computer Science discussion forums that I think are just wonderful...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Can We Afford To Wait For a CS Sputnik Moment
I was having a talk with a teacher online recently and he reminded me of the Sputnik scare that started a lot of renewed interest in science and math in education...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 24 September 2012
Happy Monday. Well try to start the day with a big smile until you actually feel like smiling. It works. Trust me on that. Last week a lot of things crossed myNCWIT...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What period is it? Let me check my phone
The Center for Advanced Technology is a great program at Lakewood Senior High School in Florida. Students in this program learn and use technology in interesting...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thinking About Databases
Some years ago I had students write a program that involved managing a checkbook and balancing it. I was so proud of it. Later a student told be she linked the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
We Are Making Things Too Hard
I once had a conversation with Bill Gates. Yes, in person, face to face. And while I will not go into the whole meeting he said a couple of things that I continue...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson