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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
Coding lessons for 8-10 yr olds
Are you a tweeting teacher who teaches K-8 computer science? If so I am hoping you can join the CSTA K-8 task group for the next #CSK8 Twitter chat on Wed Feb 11...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Learning From the Code Hunt Dashboard
This week I am in Redmond WA at a two day workshop around Code Hunt being run by Microsoft Research and the developers behind Code Hunt. After day one I can say...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 9 February 2015
I’m back in Redmond WA today. First time in over three years I have been here. I expect it to feel different as a visitor after being hear many times as an employee...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Recursion – Love it or hate it?
The following was posted to the AP CS Facebook page yesterday with the question "What would the answer be?" Things went along just fine for 3 replies of people...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Girls Who Code Is Hiring Paid Teaching Staff
Looks like these opportunities are in New York, Detroit and San Francisco. Girls Who Code is a national non-profit organization working to close the gender gap...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 2 February 2015
Happy Groundhog Day! We’re having a snow day with schools closed because of a snow storm. I’m betting on six more weeks of winter. It may take that long for all...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Queen of Code – Grace Hopper
There is a new movie about Grace Hopper out in the Internet. The movie is about 16 minutes look and I think it is pretty good. I’m looking for a place in my schedule...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 26 January 2015
A new semester starts for me today. Since I only teach semester courses that means a whole new group of students to meet and teach. I have spent much of the weekend...
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
Interesting Links 19 January 2015
School is out today in honor of Martin Luther King Jr Day. Semester exams start tomorrow. I think I’m ready. I hope my students are ready. I do have a couple of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Surface Pro 3 – First Thoughts
Thanks to a contest run by the Office Mix people I won a Surface Pro 3 for my school. And I get to use it which is great. I’ve had a Surface RT (first edition)TouchDevelop...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Code Hunt for Review and Problem Solving
Code Hunt is something I have been experimenting with a bit this year. For those who are not familiar with it, Code Hunt “is an educational, browser-based coding...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
But I Have The Same as Him
One thing I hear a lot is “I have the exact same code and someone else and theirs work and mine doesn’t.” The obvious wise guy reply is “if yours doesn’t work then...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 12 January 2015
It’s the end of the semester and I’ve been crazy busy. Outside projects, grading, exam writing, and more. Time for blogging seems to be in short supply these days...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 5 January 2015
First interesting links post of the new year! I hope your year is off to a good start. Classes started back up for me today. I think I’m ready even though I didn...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Education Predictions for 2015
Seems like a lot of people like to make predictions this time of year. I tend not to because I’m not that good at it. But I think I have some ideas so I’m going...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
My Favorite Teaching Tools from 2014
This is the year I got serious about doing things differently in my class. Three tools really helped me out. Yes they are all from Microsoft and part of me really...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Looking Back on The Blog Posts of 2014
Last week was Christmas and I spent very little time online and did not collect a lot of good links. So with the end of the year is just around the corner I thought...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Professional Development Online–Is Twitter the Best?
Last week Audrey Watters wrote a blog post that asked Is Twitter the Best Option for Online Professional Development? Now I love Twitter (follow me there @AlfredTwo...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson