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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
The Problem With Group Projects
I haven’t been at the ICER Conference but a lot of my friends are there and between their tweets and other tweets using the #icer2015 hash tag I almost feel like...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Drag and Drop Programming–Some Opinions
Seriously now! Just how many drag and drop programming languages/environments do we really need? Differences between them are small. The list I have (Drag and drop...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Projects and Recipes in Computer Science Classes
Chris Lehmann is principal of the Science Leadership Academy. “SLA is an inquiry-driven, project-based high school focused on 21st century learning “ So when I...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 10 August 2015
Interesting week last week. I spent a couple of days at Harvard (a liberal arts college in Cambridge MA) learning about their plans to adapt their famous CS 50wiki...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS50 AP–An Advanced Placement Computer Science Course from Harvard
The last few days were spent at Harvard University attending CS50 Boot camp in Cambridge (Videos of most of the talks should be at that link soon.) It was an interesting...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links–3 August 2015
I’ve been hearing about teachers headed back to school already. Many more will be starting back over the next month. Almost three more weeks of “summer” for meMicrosoft...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Musings on Blogging
Attending several conferences this summer I have talked to any number of people about this blog. Several people told me how much they appreciated the blog which...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Putting Student Programmers To Work
I love CS Teaching Tips. I follow them on Twitter and Facebook as well as visiting the web site from time to time. Full list of links at the bottom of this post...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programmers Have No Ideas?
I read blogs by smart interesting people so I can be exposed to new or different ideas. Eugene Wallingford is one of those smart interesting people. He recently...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 27 July 2015
The really part of this week was in Charleston SC for a great mini conference. I blogged about it earlier in the week. The rest of the week was catching up around...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Charleston Teach Meet Day Two
Today was the second day of a creative mini conference of educators. You can read about Charleston Teach Meet Day One here. We started off today a little differently...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Charleston Teach Meet Day One
This week I am in Charleston SC at Porter-Gaud School meeting with about a dozen teachers from around the US and two teachers from Scotland. It’s a bit unusual@...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 20 July 2015
If this is Monday it must be Charleston. Seriously though I am in Charleston SC for a two day mini conference with a small group of great educators. More on that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA Annual Conference 2015–Looking Back
The 2015 Annual CSTA Conference is in the books now. Over 350 people attended in Grapevine TX for 14 three-hour workshops and 24 concurrent sessions. There wascode...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
BBC Micro:bit Revisited
At the CSTA Conference I had a long chat with Peli de Halleux from the TouchDevelop team about the BBC Micro:bit. Peli has been active in TouchDevelop and the BBC...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What is real programming?
I’m tempted to just leave the question there, get some popcorn and watch sparks fly. A lot of discussion on more or less that topic in the comments on a blog post...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 13 July 2015
Usually I write these up on Sunday so it will be ready first thing in the morning on Monday. This week I am at the annual CSTA Conference and I was in networking...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
You Don’t Know What You Are Teaching Your Students
From time to time teachers need a reminder of what they are teaching. Oh not just “we teach students not subjects.” That is certainly true but what is also true...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Unconscious Biases in Schools
Saw this in my inbox and thought it worth sharing with others who don’t always read there CSTA email or who teach other subjects. Google is looking for educators'...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson