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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
How Many Times Can You Teach Loops?
Suppose you have students learning computer science from first grade to high school. How many times can you teach loops? Maybe you start with blocks using Scratch...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
After ISTE–More Questions Than Answers
One of the great things about ISTE is a chance to talk to people face to face. When that happens a lot of things come up. Yesterday and today, along with walking...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Coding is Not a Four Letter Word
I am at ISTE and have lost count of the times today someone said "you can program this without knowing how to code." Usually they mean this because they use a block...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ISTE 2017- A First Look
If I am seeing a theme at ISTE 2017 so far it is making. Session after session demonstrates learning by making things. No where is this more true than with computer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Student Programmer Fix This Code
Recently I came across this cartoon and shared it on Facebook.Responses were interesting. The newer one was to programming the more likely people seemed to be to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Become A Computer Science Teacher in Five Days
Garth Flint is a computer science teacher in Montana. While most computer science teachers are a bit isolated, most are the only CS teacher in their school. Garth...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Movies for Computer Science Students
Today was watch movie day. I watched two movies that I have been thinking about showing to my computer science students.The first one I watched was "The Imitation...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Micro:bit Small-board Computer Launches in U.S. & Canada
The Micro:bit (nee BBC Micro:bit) is now available in the US and Canada. This little device has been in classrooms in the United Kingdom for about a year and aprogrammable...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How To Teach Computer Science
I always read articles like this one - The 5 Worst Ways to Teach Computer Science – with some trepidation. I always expect to find out that I’m doing it all wrong...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What is the purpose of a computer science education?
One of my former students posed that question. He then asked if it were: Building computer scientists Building software engineers Building citizens Now context...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What CS Should a Student Know Before High School
Recently a middle school teacher asked what computer science knowledge would high school computer science teachers like their incoming students to know. The first...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Need Funds to Attend the CSTA Conference?
OK this is an opportunity too good to pass up if you are a K12 computer science teacher. Seriously. If you are a K12 teacher, then Rolls Royce wants to help get...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How To Make Computers Work For People Like You
Years ago I was giving a career talk in Roxbury (a heavily minority neighborhood in Boston) to a group of students. At the end a young African American woman asked...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
News Flash! School and Industry Are NOT The Same
Computer Science cheating has been a discussion lately. Not just in the NY Times article I referenced the other day (Cheating In Computer Science Class) but onComputer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
On Becoming a Better Computer Science Teacher
Andy Ko, Associate Professor at the University of Washington iSchool and Chief Scientist & Co-Founder @answerdash has posted a blog and slide presentation fromHow...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Cheating In Computer Science Class
An article about cheating in CS classes from the New York Times (As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating) has been all over my social networking feed...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 24 May 2017
It’s been a while since I posted one of these collections. And I’ve been blogging a lot less lately. Call it a sort of blogging vacation. I just needed to prioritize...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Using Virtual Reality for Teaching Computer Science
Maybe you can help me? My gut tells me that virtual reality or even mixed reality can be useful for teaching computer science. How to do that is the question. I...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Pseudo Random Numbers Are Confusing
Random numbers are really useful in computer science. We use them a lot for simulations (or games – pretty much the same thing) and to make programs more interesting...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson