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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
Obama Endorses Programming Classes in High School
On one hand this is great. The President of the United States promotes computer science education. On the other hand he talks about it primarily as a vocational...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Friendly Survey of Programming Languages
I was sitting around thinking about high school computer science curriculum last night when the idea of a programming languages survey course came to mind. I’m...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
I Can Look That Up For You
One of the things that has happened over the last few years is that I have learned what I needed on a just in time basis. That is to say that rather than trying...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 18 February 2013
Another snowy weekend in New Hampshire for me. Not a bad thing as I had a lot of grading to catch up on. But today is a holiday for my school (Washington's Birthday)...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Drive Fear Out of the Classroom
Many years ago I was privileged to take the famous four day course taught by W Edwards Deming. Deming is widely credited with turning around the Japanese manufacturing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Throw Out The Usual Suspects
Anyone who has spent time in a classroom knows that there are some students, usually a small number, to take up most of the class participation. It’s not that they...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Beware the Scaffold That Becomes Crutch
This year I am experimenting with scaffolding to help students get started with projects. For example I started one group with a project to calculate BMI (BodyDescaffolding...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science - Part of English Baccalaureate
There is some good news from the UK in that Computer Science is going to be part of English Baccalaureate (secondary school) program there. The Ministry of Education...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Making Money or Making a Difference
I found this very interesting info graphic (OK Doug Peterson tweeted the link so really he found it first) from Seattle University at Training in Technology: The...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Principles–An Update
The About the Program page for the CS Principles, A New First Course in Computing website has some updated documents since the last time I visited it. Of particular...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 11 February 2013
Last week was a great one for me. It ended with a massive snowstorm that hit New Hampshire Friday though Saturday. I love snow and we haven’t had as much as I would...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Improvisational Teaching
Yesterday I had a situation where several students were playing catch up after absences and the rest of the class had finished a programming exercise sooner than...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Swapping Values The Tricky Way
Last week my friend Tom Indelicato who talking to his Advanced Placement Computer Science students about sorting. As is necessary this involved talking about how...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Focus (Finding Outstanding Classrooms Using Social media)
The Focus (Finding Outstanding Classrooms Using Social media) is an online video show started by Don Wettrick to showcase GREAT teachers and students. I thought...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
XNA is Dead (or will be soon)
I’ve really loved using XNA Game Studio for game development. I think its been a great tool for hobbyists, students and even serious casual game developers. It...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 4 February 2013
I was flat out all last week teaching full-time. It was a good week even though a bit stressful. Starting teaching new courses, especially after a long hiatus,SAS...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Do We Need Radical Change in Computer Science Education?
Everyone seems to be getting into the game of “fixing” computer science education. From Khan Academy to Code.org online programs seem to be popping up weekly. Some...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Canadian Computing Education Day + Scratch Day Canada
This came though on one of the mailing lists I am on. I know that some from Canada read this blog (or so the analytic report claims) so I thought I would also share...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
New CSTA Discussion List
This is something we (Computer Science educators) have needed for a while – a general purpose mailing list to discuss a wider range of CS education topics. As this...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson