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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
2015 CSTA Administrator Impact Award Nominations Open
Dear CSTA Community, Nominations are currently open for the 2015 CSTA Administrator Impact Award! This prestigious award is given by CSTA to recognize an administrator...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 16 March 2015
Last week I was not at SXSWedu. There were not as many tweets about it in my stream as there were from SIGCSE. I still want to go some day though. With progress...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Choose to Code With TouchDevelop
Looks like a good chance to earn some money for school projects and introduce students to programming. Open to US public schools only unfortunately. More information...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Is the BBC’s ‘Micro Bot’ the Silver Bullet
It’s been all over social media and online news the last couple of days - BBC to give out one million 'Micro Bit' computers to get kids coding. I’m a little skeptical...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Simplify Simplify Simplify
One of the things beginners do when learning how to program is to make things more complicated then they need to be. It’s a natural thing because they often don...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How to teach Computer Science to 5-14yr Olds – #CSK8 Twitter Chat
Join CSTA K-8 task force for #CSK8 chat on Mar 11 8pm EST. Pedagogy- ‘How to teach’ Computer Science to 5-14yr olds. Not the What or Why. Discuss pair programming...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
YouthSpark Challenge for Change
Microsoft runs all sorts of competitions. Recently I read about the YouthSpark Challenge for Change. Since it is no open to 13 to 17 year olds (aka high school...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 9 March 2015
Last week was SIGCSE in Kansas City. From all reports it was a great conference. I wasn’t there but I followed as close as I could via Twitter. The twitter stream...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Still More Hardware for Learning Software–But Why?
I get email. And I get twitter followers. Often these new followers or email senders are promoting some new gadget for teaching. This week it was RobotIX and Hackball...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Can I Give You A Hint?
Last month I attended a workshop on CodeHunt at Microsoft Research. A talk there by Daniel Perelman on Hint generation in Code Hunt (you can watch a video of his...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
It’s the Software Stupid
Computers are magic. Well to a few people they are. To others they are annoying and useless pieces of hardware. At least until you add software. I was reading Audrey...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 2 March 2015
Back in school today. It was nice to have a break but I am looking forward to time with my students today. I got no school work done at all during the week off....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Lessons in Time
The other day I was microwaving some food to heat it up. Ten seconds seemed like forever. I was actually able to do several other things while I waited. The microwave...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Simulations Are More Fun
One of my favorite computer science teachers, Judy Hromcik from Texas, posted a link to a video called “The last banana: A thought experiment in probability.” The...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 23 February 2015
It's February break for my school. I’m trying to take it easy this week. And catching up with grading of course. I suspect a lot of teachers use so-called vacation...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Today’s BASIC Is Not Your Father’s BASIC
A post at Doug Peterson’s blog (A Different Time) sent me to a site that has a collection of old BASIC programs. And by old I mean the 1970s. I remember many of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2015 CSTA annual conference – Registration is Open
Registration is now open for the CSTA annual conference. CSTA 2015 is a professional development opportunity for computer science and information technology teachers...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
One Thing Leads To Another
One of the great things about teacher blogging is the sharing of ideas. Often these ideas can be easily adapted and adopted in new ways. Earlier today Doug Peterson...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 16 February 2015
President’s Day today which means my school is closed. I can use the rest after cleaning up from the latest snow storm. I’ve lost count of the number of feet (yes...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson