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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
Changing How We Think About School
What my school is doing is trying to replicate the brick-and-mortar model in the online world. Other schools are doing something more like “correspondence school...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 11–Is this our new normal?
Well. we’re definitely going to stay online until May. Our last week in April is a vacation week. I am hoping it still is. What will May bring? I have no idea.Teachers...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 10B–Plan? What Plan?
When administration announced we were moving to remote teaching I started adjusting my plans. Now understand that when the semester started I had a plan for every...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 10A –I'm One of the Lucky Ones
There has been a lot in the news about schools being closed and how schools are dealing with it. There seems to be everything for regular online synchronous teaching...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 10–When Remote is Really Remote
For the last several years I have had international students in some of my classes. Most from China but also South Korea, Viet Nam, and Cambodia. This year I have...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 9–Students Backchanneling
My good friend and peer teacher, Tom Indelicato and I share a morning homeroom. It’s online now of course but we join early and stay late to touch base with each...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 8–Online Teaching Stations
We sure are learning a lot about online classes these days. Teachers at my school are using Google Meet and Zoom in about equal numbers. This means that students...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 7
Well this is the new normal I guess. We had snow last night and several students missed homeroom this morning. I am assuming it is because of power outages in the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 6
Boring post title I know. But I am not really concerned about attracting eyes in these crazy time. Over the weekend I found out that my international students (two...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 5
As one of my co-workers put it it's been a long year this week. I might ease up on that easier say a long month this week. It sure has been a learning experience...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 4
I have no idea how long or how consistently I will be writing these posts. I guess when I have something to say. In some ways I think of this as a sort of record...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 3
I miss my students. It’s hard talking and not seeing or hearing any reactions. Are they getting my jokes? Even polite laughter and pretending I am funny would be...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 2
My advisory (homeroom) was interesting. For one thing I realized that thee isn’t the chatter between students in the room. I’m pretty sure they are texting and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 1
Well, we’ve started. Today we only had half the classes in the rotation meet. Tomorrow we will have the second half. It’s all about getting adjusted to the new...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 0
Well it happened. Like so many schools and school districts, Bishop Guertin has decided to close the building because of COVID-19. I say closing the building because...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
One Compile a Day
There is a lot of talk about teaching debugging going on there days. Amy Ko of the University of Washington did a podcast a short time ago on the subject. Amy Ko...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What is The Best Way to Provide #CSforAll?
Getting more computer science education to more people is something I think about a lot. Mark Guzdial, I want to be him if I ever grow up, has me thinking in new...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Moving CS Education Online
Covid-19 is motivating schools all over the world to close. Many other schools are looking at options in case they have to close their facilities. My own school...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Working Through the Stages of Debugging
I found this Tweet by Katerina Borodina @ctrlshifti that claimed that the 5 stages of grief apply perfectly to debugging code Denial "The compiler is wrong" Anger...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson