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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
Interested in Industry Visitors to Your CS Class?
I get interesting messages from all sorts of places. Recently, I received this message on LinkedIn. I love the idea of bringing industry professionals in to talk...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Online Programming Environments are Poor Preparation
Got your attention didn’t I? More and more teachers are using online coding environments to teach computer science. I used one myself to teach Advanced Placement...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Does AI Mean The End Of Teaching Programming
The tl;dr of it is no. At least not yet. As more and more people use artificial intelligent agents to help write code we’re learning that AI is not quite all there...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Changes in Social Media Where to Find Me
It appears that a lot of people are leaving X (formerly Twitter) I confess to being one of them. Frankly, X isn’t the same for me. A lot of people seem to be moving...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA New England Conference 2024–Exhibit Hall
Today I was able to attend the 2024 CSTA New England conference. There were 14 exhibits at the conference and I spent some time with several of them. One of the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
NCWIT Aspirations in Computing High School Award
The NCWIT Aspirations in Computing High School Award is an amazing program for young women THe students I have had who earned these awards have found it very useful...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Questions Keeping Me Awake Tonight
It’s about 2:45 AM as I start this post. Why am I writing at this hour? Well, it’s because some things are keeping my mind from shutting down and maybe by writing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Post CSTA 2024 Thoughts
The 2024 CSTA conference was the best one ever for me. It was wonderful to catchup with old friends and to talk to many people I had never met before. CSTA is about...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA Day Four
Last day of the conference and I woke up to news of a global network outage that was causing delays in thousands of flights. Including my trip home. Oh well. IGUI4Sher...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA Day Three
Before I start on my day three report, I want to suggest people look at Mike Zamansky’s Day Two report on his blog. We attended mostly different sessions and he...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA 2024 Exhibit Hall
The exhibit hall was impressive this year. I believe three are something like 80 exhibitors. Below is a snapshot of s few of them that caught my eye. The usualFuture...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA Day Two
Day two starts with sessions for ALL attendees. I started proctoring a session called Classroom To Career – CS Curriculum With a Purpose. This was a session presented...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA Day One
Day one for me was the chapter leadership summit. I got talked into the New Hampshire chapter treasurer role. The first thing I did was to connect with the other...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA At 20 Looking Back #CSTA2024
CTSA turns twenty and as I write this I am about ready to fly out to Las Vegas for the annual CSTA conference. I’m in the mood to look back a bit. After the conference...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Advice To First Timers at #ISTE24 or #CSTA2024
Summer conference season is coming up. ISTE starts this weekend (without me) and CSTA (with me) is in July. Over the years I have been to scores of conferences...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Pangrams Anyone?
Regular readers of this blog know that I have been doing the New York Times Spelling bee (Computer Science Teacher: Spelling Bee Solver Project). Actually, I do...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Alphabet? What alphabet?
I used to start a talk on internationalization of code with the question “How many letters are in the alphabet?” Once I had several people say “26” I would ask...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
AI Debuggers?
A meme was posted (by Doug Peterson I believe) asking why if the computer knows there is a semi colon missing that the computer doesn’t add it? It’s a good question...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Much Hardware Knowledge do CS Students Need
Back to the basics! Get students close to the hardware! Really? Just how much hardware knowledge do students need today? This post was prompted by a post getting...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Looking Forward to Computer Science Education in 2024
“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future!” --Niels BohrMy track record at looking forward in CS education is a mixed bag. I kept expecting...12