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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
Interesting Links 10 October 2016
It is Columbus Day in New Hampshire. Or as my family likes to say “Leif Landed First Day.” I’ve been enjoying visiting the amazing fall foliage in northern NewDesperately...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Facing Facts About the Geek Gene
There are a lot of people who want to believe that computer science ability is some sort of innate talent. That either you have a special brain that can handleresearch...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Virtual Reality in Education–Sooner or Later?
There is a lot of excitement about virtual reality and the prospects of it changing education. Everything from Google Cardboard (on the low end of cost and ease...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Infosys Foundation USA/ACM/CSTA Awards for Teaching Excellence in Computer Science
On behalf of CSTA, ACM and the Infosys Foundation USA, I wanted to let you know that applications are now open for the inaugural Infosys Foundation USA/ACM/CSTA...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 3 October 2016
It’s autumn in New Hampshire. The leaves are turning all sorts of bright colors and the nights are getting cool. And school is rolling right along. It’s a great...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 26 September 2016
We celebrated my grandsons second birthday yesterday. Somehow I couldnt get into putting this post together afterwards. It felt like work. Having grandchildrenWe...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
When But It Works Isnt Enough
I saw this image on Twitter recently. It was captioned: "Spaces or tabs?""Semicolons." Its all perfectly legal C or C++ code. And a decent compiler will handle...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Bug Reports
I saw the following tweet earlier today. Still earlier in the day I read a post on Mark Guzdials blog about Barriers to Stack Overflow Use for Females which had...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 19 September 2016
The big news last week was the launch of the CSforAll Consortium with over 180 members committed to K12 CS Education. That was not all I picked up last week though...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Beyond Programmers Programs
There is a difference between computer science and software engineering. There are some big and important differences. There is of course a lot of overlap. In any...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science-Because it is Magic
Seems like a number of people have been blogging about computer science for everyone this week. This may well be related to this weeks Computer Science For All...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
White House Summit on #CSforAll & CS for All Consortium
Yesterday the White House hosted a major summit on Computer Science for All. I wasnt there myself but was able to watch much of it via live streaming. It was aRuthe...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 12 September 2016
Is everyone back at school now? After a couple of short weeks school happens all five weekdays this week. I think Im ready for a full week. Getting back into the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Of Dice and Men
In a college I first learned about Stochastic analysis and Monti Carlo Simulations. Whoa! An academic sounding reason to play with random numbers. It was onlyTo...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Crowdsourcing Tech Terms for Students
Peter Vogel has been creating a list of tech terms for his ICT students for more than 20 years. He edits and updates the list just before school starts for him...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 5 September 2016
It’s Labor Day in the US which means this is the last day of a four day weekend for me. It’s nice to have an extra long weekend this early in the school year. Making...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Scratch Resources from Ireland
A friend recently sent me a link to this site that looks like it will be very helpful for teachers who are using Scratch from MIT. Check it out at scratch.ie Lero...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 29 August 2016
Classes started at my school last week. Whoa! Getting back in the groove is hard. But I have great students and fun classes so it will be ok. I spent the weekend...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
App Challenge! Enter to Win $20,000 for your School
I had an email the other day about the Verizon app challenge. It looks interesting and I may have some students enter this year. The fact that coding IS NOT required...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson