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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
Career Outlook for CS Students
The CACM web site has an interesting interview with Joel Adams (Joel Adams Discusses the Career Outlook for CS Students) Joel Adams
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Do we have to make computer science cool again?
I have been told that once upon a time the ISTE conference (back when it was still called NECC) had a lot of computer science education content. That
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Conversations at ISTE
Yesterday was more or less the opening of ISTE. These conference are sort of interesting in that they start gradually. Wednesday ISTE will end somewhat abruptly...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 27 June 2010
Posting early this week as I hope to have more timely stuff to write about as the week goes on. I
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kodu Game Lab - Classroom Kit
The Kodu team has just released a classroom kit of Kodu resources. If you are thinking about using Kodu either in a summer program or with students in the fall...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Getting Close to ISTE Time
I am starting to put stuff together to take with me to ISTE this weekend. I get in Sunday sometime and already have a dinner meeting set up. And some stuff do to...
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How Many Types of Programmers are there?
Paul Vick wrote a post called
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Multiple Paths into Computer Science
This started out as a comment on Mark Guzdial
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 21 June 2010
By rough count I went through 160 Tweets to cull out the interesting links for today’s post. It makes me wonder if I tweet too much. Of course for me Twitter is...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Critical Thinking
Friday is not the day to talk about thinking. I think a lot of people in general and students in particular are looking to stop thinking right about now. But critical...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Show About Computer Programming
One of the things that comes up in conversation when ever getting more students, especially women, interested in computer science comes up is that we need a TV...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Real Projects Workshop
I
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 14 June 2010
Is school done for the year where you are? Here in the northeast of the US there is another week or two to go. Teachers are finishing up the year, getting their...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Projects That Mean Something
Very often is seems as though teacher tend to assign projects that mean little if anything to any one. It is as if we feel that learning is medicine that only works...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Inspiration
Earlier this week Microsoft announced the winners of the 2010 Windows Phone 7 "Rockstar" Award. Two high school students from the Advanced Technologies Academytheir...
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Interesting Links 7 June 2010
I tried to take most of last week off. Well I guess I actually did officially take most of the week off but somehow I spent more time than I should have on email...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Rose is a Rose
Let me think out loud hear a little and get some opinions. On what? On how far to go when naming things in programs. let me start at the beginning. The other day...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
New England Innovation Month 2010
June has been designated as New England Innovation month. It was innovation (the company was Digital Equipment) that really caused me to move to New England 30most...
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Interesting Links 31 May 2010
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From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson