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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
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
Are Large Classes The Answer To a Computer Science Teacher Shortage?
Another teacher reported on Facebook that they were going teach AP CS Principles and that this was the first time they are teaching computer science and their students...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Iowa Caucus 2020–What Happens When Software Doesn’t Work?
It’s too early to tell exactly what went wrong with the Iowa caucus this year but I suspect it will wind up being a case study in several ways. Political Science...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Check Out The CS Ed Podcast
I first heard about the CS Ed Podcast back when I wrote on debugging. Amy Ko of the university of Washington talked about teaching debugging in a recent interview...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The System Knows Who You Are
True confession – give me an app that plays with interesting and personal data and I’ll play for a while. The amount of data available to us today is astounding...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Should We Use the Technology in the Classroom?
I confess that I would love some augmented reality device that showed me the name of the student I was looking at. I am horrible with names. I like to think that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson