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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
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
Interesting Links 11 November 2013
It’s Veteran’s Day in the US and most schools are closed. We’re remembering and honoring our nations veterans. I’m remembering my late father who was a combat veteran...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Teachers–Please help evaluate HoC Tutorials
I'm passing this along for Code.org who I am helping organize tutorials for an Hour of Code during CS education week. We need help evaluating the tutorials we have...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hour of Code tutorials are ready to try
Received this update email from Code.org last night. Looks like an Hour of Code for CS Education week is getting real! And of course it is getting close. Now though...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Making Magic With Software
My friend and fellow teacher Tom Indelicato and I are teaching a new course this year. We are calling to Explorations in Computer Science and it is patterned somewhat...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA Voice November 2013
If you are a member of the CSTA you should have gotten this update in email. If you didn’t you may want to make sure that CSTA has your email address right. Ifmore...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 4 November 2013
The big news were I live last week was the Red Sox winning the World Series. Nothing at all to do with computing. Even with all the excitement I managed to find...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson