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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
But I’ve Always Done It This Way
I’ve had my students working on a little exercise this week. It’s simple and I know that a lot of teachers use similar projects. The idea is to build a triangle...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How the Internet works Video Series from code.org
Code.org announced a set of videos about “How the Internet works.” today. This set of short (6-7 minutes long) videos explain many of the key concepts that make...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 28 September 2015
Still a lot of news going on about New York City's plans as well as other places also looking at adding more computer science education. It seems like more andCode...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Ethics and Computer Science
How many times have we heard it said “with great power comes great responsibility.” Have you read about the scandal with Volkswagen where they used software tricks...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Virtual BBC Micro:Bit Now in Beta
Curious about the BBC MicroBit? There is a new web site about it that includes a virtual Micro:bit computer. There are tutorials and videos and various other bits...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 21 September 2015
Lots of CS education news last week. New York City starts a ten year effort to get computer science education in everyone of the city’s 1700 schools. Mayor Bill...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft To Invest $75 Million in Computer Science Education
Last week Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced a $75 million commitment to increase their YouthSpark program to increase access to computer science for all youth...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Service Learning in AP CS A
Yet another interesting curriculum program. This one a pilot program by the College Board. Versions of a service oriented curriculum for six AP courses including...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
So Much Computer Science–So Little Time
I went into the other computer lab today to get some paper for my lab’s printer. The Advanced Placement Computer Science class was in there at the time. Most of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
New York City–Computer Science for All
New York is embarking on what may be the most ambitious effort to bring computer science education to all the students in a district in the US today. The program...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2015 Faces of Computing Competition
As a member of the CSTA Equity Committee I am please to pass along the announcement of our annual Faces of Computing Competition. In honor of CSEdWeek, CSTA will...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
New Free APCS curriculum using Processing and GitHub
I found this on a mailing list last week. I haven’t looked to closely at it since we haven’t decided to go with AP CSP at my school yet but it sounds interesting...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting links 14 September 2015
Last week was fun. I have great students. One thing I did this week was to create a scaffold program for my Honors Programming students. Just a basic user interface...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Young Should We Start Teaching Computer Science?
The other day I read about a new book in the works for teaching Boolean concepts to babies. Yes Babies. A computer scientist is writing a book about programming...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Bebras Computing Challenge
This is a new one to me but it looks interesting. I like that it runs down to grades lower than high school. In 2014, almost a million participants across 34Bebras...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Complicated Solutions To Simple Problems
I found this on the Internet today via Twitter.It works. Well more or less. I can imagine cases where it might not but they include other problems. It’s not very...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 7 September 2015
Labor Day weekend in the US. A four day weekend and I am exhausted from it. Maybe I need to get back to school to rest up. OK not really but it has been a busyCSTA...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA Now Accepting Applications for Cutler-Bell Prize
This is not your ordinary high school CS student prize. “Four winners will be selected annually and each will be awarded a $10,000 prize and cost of travel to the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Call for proposals now open for the 2016 CSTA Annual Conference
It seems like I just got back from the 2015 CSTA Annual Conference but time marches on and the call for proposals for next summer’s conference was just released...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson