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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
CSTA 2019 Day 2
I’m always skeptical about celebrity keynotes at education conferences so my expectations for Natasha Singer from the New York Times.were not high. I was pleasantly...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA 2019–Day 1
As planned I spent most of the morning helping at registration. And talking to a lot of people as they came in. After lunch the exhibit hall opened and I was in...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA 2019 Day 0
Sunday was the start of CSTA 2019 with workshops and the Chapter Leadership Summit. I wasn’t part of the summit and I didn’t get to any workshops but I still had...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Pre-conference Thoughts–CSTA 2019
I’m on my way to Phoenix AZ for the CSTA conference. For years I would get there early and leave late. This was especially true when I was on the CSTA Board and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ISTE 2019 Trip Report
There was a time when I would have written a blog post every night of ISTE. Apparently I’m getting older or something and that is not a priority for me any more...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
In Honor of BASIC
I found an interesting article today New Hampshire installs first historical marker to honor computer programming The BASIC programming language was invented at...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Students to Yearn to Learn
Summer time is time for me to do a lot of thinking about my teaching practice. I've been doing a lot of reading and a couple of quotes have helped me in my thinking...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Different Kinds of Professional Development for Computer Science Teachers
What to teach and how to teach are different questions. The first is all about content knowledge and the second is about pedagogy. For the most part it feels like...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Join the Online #CSed Conversations
At it’s best, social computing is a conversation that moves in a positive direction. The more people who participate the better the conversation and the more benefit...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Change the Programming Language, Change the Course
A recent Facebook post suggested changing the language for Advanced Placement Computer Science A (what some of us annoy others by calling AP Java). This comes up...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Well Can You Code the Projects You Assign Students?
Garth Flint had another good post today (Last Day of School And Done with Java) He lists some interesting projects he assigned and writes about some lessons learned...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Helping Doesn’t Always Help
My programming students are working on their final/semester projects. As is typical some of them are doing extra work on their projects at home. Normally that is...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Learning From Today and Planning For Tomorrow
It’s the end of the school year for me. Next week is our final exam week and my students are working on their semester projects. I use projects rather than an exam...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ACM CompEd Conference
Brett Becker has been blogging about the ACM CompEd conference now taking place in China. See his blog post at ACM CompEd daily update 1: Day 1 for example. Looks...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science And x
For most of my teaching career I have been focused on teaching computer science in stand alone computer science classes. And I really like teaching computer science...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Migrating to Android–an early trip report
One of the reasons I held on to my Windows Phone as long as I did is that it was so easy to program apps for it. I had come to depend on one particular app I wrote...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
With Great Code Comes Great Responsibility
Omidyar Network, Mozilla, Schmidt Futures, and Craig Newmark Philanthropies recently announced the winners of the Responsible Computer Science Challenge. The challenge...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Game of Thrones and Computer Science
I confess that I have not watched a single episode of Game of Thrones. That doesn’t mean I am oblivious to the social impact of the show. My online social media...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
More Than One Way To Code a Solution (to a programming project)
Garth Flint has an interesting post about grading programming projects (It is never easy) in which he talks about the interesting solutions students come up with...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson