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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
Thoughts On The Start of School
Today is the eight day of classes for me. By and large the school year is off to a good start. The students are great. I told my students this morning that I was...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 1 September 2014
Nothing like easing into the new school year. Last week was a four day week and so is this week. Today being Labor Day in the US most schools are closed. Here in...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Yet More Block Programming Languages
I saw this announcement on Facebook first but I probably just missed seeing it on the email list. At this stage I have to wonder why? Why more of the same? Do we...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Rotate the Cell Phones
One of the things I am working hard at this year is making things more clear to students. I want them to understand concepts and why they are important and useful...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 25 August 2014
Well I made it though going back to school. Teachers went back Tuesday, we saw our freshmen students briefly on Wednesday and had a full (very full) day of classes...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA 2015 CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Time flies when you’re having fun. It seems like just yesterday I got home from this summer’s CSTA conference. But it has actually been a while. And then yesterday...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hacking Away at Little Problems
We have a fairly nice system for student information and the like. It is not perfect but then what system is? For example, our student management system will output...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
New Widget–CS Teaching Tips
I added a new widget to my blog last night. It is connected to CS Teaching tips which is a webpage and Twitter account – @CSTeachingTips. The widget provides aCS...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why AP
Sometimes you miss something by reading a blog post too early. Such is the case with a recent post by Mark Guzdial - Python is the most popular intro language:Laura...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links–18 August 2014
Seems like I spent all my time last week doing last minute tasks before school starts. Getting cars inspected and reregistered for example. And a haircut that my...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Learning By Doing Works for Adults Too
Over the last year or so I have had a number of meetings and conversations with school leaders about using social media. One of my first questions is always “who...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 11 August 2014
One more week until I return to school for the new year. I’ve been spending a lot of time planning and thinking about how to teach things better this year thanThe...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why You Need Parentheses
A friend posted the following image on Facebook. You’ve probably seen like it. Actually I have posted similar myself.The result, as you might expect, was people...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
It's Hard To Make Easy Projects
I’ve been working on my lesson plans for this year and one thing I always struggle with is creating projects. Oh I have lots in my tool box but I am always looking...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 4 August 2014
It was both a slow week and a busy week last week. Slow online for the most part. There were a couple of big events that friends of mine were at but I was home....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Troubles with Tutorials
The first thing I ran into with regards to programming tutorials last week was this tweet and accompanying image. 99% of #programming tutorials on the web pic...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 28 July 2014
The highlight of last week was a two-hour workshop on TouchDevelop which I presented to teachers who are part of the New York City Department of Education Software...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Geeks Pick Nits Even On Jokes
I posted this following image on my Facebook page. Comments came immediately. First one was something like “only one step?” Another said the method should be...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Whack A Mole Project
I’ve done variations in Whack A Mole over there years. I did a Whack Something Game for Windows Phone 7 some years ago for example. But somehow I put it aside and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson