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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
Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) Certifications
This week Microsoft announced a new set of entry level certifications that may be of interest to many schools and colleges/universities. Personally I think that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Visual Programming Languages
There seem to be a growing number of visual programming languages available these days. Kodu (below) is for creating games by younger people. It
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Interesting Links July 5 2010
Did you have a good Fourth of July weekend? technically a holiday for me today as the real day come on the Sunday. I understand it was a bit of a holiday in Norway...
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Team USA Heads to Poland to Compete in the Imagine Cup
Well the USA may be out of the World Cup but that
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Reflection on ISTE 2010
Well I
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Career Outlook for CS Students
The CACM web site has an interesting interview with Joel Adams (Joel Adams Discusses the Career Outlook for CS Students) Joel Adams
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Do we have to make computer science cool again?
I have been told that once upon a time the ISTE conference (back when it was still called NECC) had a lot of computer science education content. That
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Conversations at ISTE
Yesterday was more or less the opening of ISTE. These conference are sort of interesting in that they start gradually. Wednesday ISTE will end somewhat abruptly...
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Interesting Links 27 June 2010
Posting early this week as I hope to have more timely stuff to write about as the week goes on. I
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Kodu Game Lab - Classroom Kit
The Kodu team has just released a classroom kit of Kodu resources. If you are thinking about using Kodu either in a summer program or with students in the fall...
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Getting Close to ISTE Time
I am starting to put stuff together to take with me to ISTE this weekend. I get in Sunday sometime and already have a dinner meeting set up. And some stuff do to...
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How Many Types of Programmers are there?
Paul Vick wrote a post called
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Multiple Paths into Computer Science
This started out as a comment on Mark Guzdial
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Interesting Links 21 June 2010
By rough count I went through 160 Tweets to cull out the interesting links for today’s post. It makes me wonder if I tweet too much. Of course for me Twitter is...
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Critical Thinking
Friday is not the day to talk about thinking. I think a lot of people in general and students in particular are looking to stop thinking right about now. But critical...
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A Show About Computer Programming
One of the things that comes up in conversation when ever getting more students, especially women, interested in computer science comes up is that we need a TV...
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Teaching Real Projects Workshop
I
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Interesting Links 14 June 2010
Is school done for the year where you are? Here in the northeast of the US there is another week or two to go. Teachers are finishing up the year, getting their...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Projects That Mean Something
Very often is seems as though teacher tend to assign projects that mean little if anything to any one. It is as if we feel that learning is medicine that only works...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson