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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
President Obama Announces #CSforAll Initiative
Those of us involved in Computer Science education wer pretty excited when President Obama mentianed computer science education in his State of the Union Address...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are You Teaching Cloud Computing to HS Students?
Looking to learn from CS teacI hate reinventing the wheel. One of the things I would like to learn more about is teaching the use of cloud services like Amazon...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Try It You’ll Like It
There are lots of cool gadgets out there these days. A lot of them are being promoted as ways to get students excited about developing software. For young students...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Plans For Missing School
The standing joke, which is not so funny really, is that creating a sub plan for missing a day of school is more work than working a day at school. It’s a tough...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 25 January 2016
THe school year is pretty much half over for me. Last week we wrapped up the first semester exams. I give semester projects, which inspired some posts in the last...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Students What They Want To Learn
I’m grading end of semester projects this week. Generally speaking, they are full of the concepts and tools that we have worked with in the course of the semester...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 18 January 2016
Last week was a good week as computer science education was called out by the President of the United States. And a student of mine, me and some other great people...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Lottery Inspired Projects
This week’s monsturous PowerBall lottery jackpot (1.6 million US dollars) had a lot of people talking. I bought a ticket but didn’t win. On the other hand discussion...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Experience Pays Off
It’s that time of semester again - Final project time for my semester courses. Students are working on their big projects and running into difficulties. Projects...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 11 January 2016
I didn’t win PowerBall this weekend so it is back to school for me. BTW am I the only one who has been thinking about what sort of database is used to keep track...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2016 AP Computer Science Principles Scholarship Programs
A lot of people are looking for help getting professional development. I saw this on the CSTA mailing list and thought I should post it for people who have have...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Looping as a Concept
I’m introducing loops to my Freshmen this week. I’m trying a couple of new things. I thought I might put them out there in hopes of getting feedback but also possibly...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Robots For Teaching Programming
One of my most popular posts has been a collection of links to block programming (drag and drop programming) tools and languages. The other day it occurred to me...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
WeDo 2.0–LEGO Robot for Teaching Science and Coding
This week at the big Consumer Electronics Show LEGO Education announced a new product - WeDo 2.0. In the press release they called it a “New wireless, tablet-ready...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
International Blog Delurking Week 2016
OK this is the first I have heard of this but it is a great idea. Comments are a huge thing for bloggers. I get a few comments now and again and they add great...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 4 January 2016
Happy New Year! Happy 11111100000! Today is forst day back at school. I didn’t get to everything I wanted to do over the break but I did start playing with some...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
When Blogging Works For Educators
It seems like there is a regular stream of articles, often on blogs, talking about blogging going away. Or changing for the worse. Or other negative comments. But...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Education Things to Watch in 2016
“It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.” I was thinking about writing a post with predictions but realized that I’m not smart enoughHow...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Code in Different Languages
The other day I found an older blog post by Rob Underwood called Code Syntax Compared. In it he wrote a very simple program in 5 different languages. He used Python...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson