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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 7 March 2016
Well last week was a busy one. I spent the first few days in Memphis working on the K-12 CS Curriculum Framework. (Blogged about that at Writing the K12 CS Framework...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Trip Report–Ed Camp Boston 2016 – #edcampBOS
I spent most of today at one of the Microsoft offices in Cambridge MA for the Boston EdCamp. EdCamp is an unconference about education. Not much (well really none)...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Days, Weeks, Months, and Leap Years
Yesterday was Leap Day – 29 February – a day which only comes along once every four years. Or so. It’s actually more complicated than that which we’ll get to in...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 29 February 2016
February break is over. I’m not actually in school today as I am working with one of the writing teams working on a framework for K-12 Computer Science Education...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Writing the K12 CS Framework
Like most classroom teachers I really hate missing class time with my students. So I’m pretty deliberate about the time that I do miss. I’m missing the next two...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Traffic Light Project in Several Acts
Dawn DuPriest posted an interesting project on her blog - Teaching event-based programming – a traffic light. I like it a lot. It’s a good way to introduce state...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Social Media and Professional Development
Just because I have been on school vacation this week doesn’t mean the learning stops. In fact I have taken advantage of the relaxed time to get involved in some...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Principles Workshops
A lot of schools are adding the Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles course for next year. That means that a lot of teachers are looking for professional...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Getting More Girls in Computer Science is Easy
It seems like one “silver bullet” after another keeps popping up to solve the computer science diversity problem. Today’s solution was drones. Yes, drones. Gary...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 22 February 2016
It’s likely to be quite on this blog this week. My school in on February vacation. I was pretty busy getting a lot of things done last week so I could enjoy this...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
LitDev (little developer) extension for Small Basic
People using Small Basic may be interested in the LitDev (little developer) extension for Small Basic. They add a lot of functionality to the language and open...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What do I mean by CS for All?
Let me start with a statement of belief about computer science education in K-12 schools. Teaching computer science is no more about creating more software developers...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 15 February 2016
What a week. No school Monday because of snow. Stayed home sick on Friday. The first is a a lot more common than the second. I really hate missing school. I’m feeling...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Lift Ticket Project
Have you bought lift tickets at a ski resort lately? There are a lot of options. Different age groups, different days (week days, weekends, holidays) and different...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 8 February 2016
We’re into the second semester at my school and things are off to a good start. Although we did miss a day last Friday because of snow. I had my programming students...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft Research Open Source Challenge
Now this is interesting. Not often you think of Microsoft and Open Source in the same sentence. Although it does seem to be happening more and more often. Thishttp...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching
This announcement went out to CSTA members (and others) this week.This award does include computer science teachers!The Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
An Online Community for CS Teachers Using Microsoft Tools
One thing I am constantly looking to do is to learn from other computer science teachers. There are some good online communities for this purpose. I’m a memberhttp...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Framework for K-12 Computer Science Education
Last week about 25 or so computer science educators met in Austin TX for two days to work on A Framework for K-12 Computer Science Education. This was not the first...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson