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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
Single Finger Programming
Yesterday I was charged with helping my grandson (he’s three months old) get to sleep for a nap. After walking around and speaking softly to him for a while I got...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 22 December 2014
Christmas vacation for me. I love my students but I sure do need a break right now. Like a lot of teachers I can use the time to catch up with things at home and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
With Super Power Comes Super Responsibility
Earlier today several people told me that my name was referenced on SlashDot. Specifically it was in reference to me calling programming a super power in a post...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Look at Computer Science Education Week
Computer Science Week has been around for about seven years now. In the early years I think most of us didn’t really know how to deal with it. There was talk about...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Too many Arrows in the Quiver?
Last week I saw a tweet complaining to Wonder Workshop about them using Blockly to program their robots when (apparently) the Kickstarter proposal said the would...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Untold History of Women in Science and Technology
A friend sent me a link to an interesting looking page that the White House set up to tell stories of the history of women in Science and Technology. It is a collection...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 15 December 2014
This week is the last week of school for my school this calendar year. We start our Christmas break with Saturday the 20th and will be off until January. I’m looking...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Dot and Dash–My New Robots
I got some robots the other night. Dot and Dash come from Wonder Workshop which is a Kickstarter project I backed. That is Dot on the right and Dash on the left...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
International 3D Game Creation Activity for CSEdWeek
I saw this on the CSTA mailing list this morning. Looks like fun. A collaboration between the University of Colorado, USA, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico, and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Tech Companies and Computer Science Education
It’s Computer Science Education week and my social media streams (blogs, Facebook and Twitter) are full of the news. The president was part of an event at the White...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 8 December 2014
It’s Computer Science Education week aka CSEdWeek. A lot of links to Hour of Code resources came though my social media stream last week and I thought about listing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
There Is No Best Programming Language
Three items from different places on the same topic requires a blog post. Well for me it does. This week’s topic was picking the best programming language. NowMy...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer History–The Importance of Stories
I ran across quiz today (Do you recognize these Obsolete Technologies?) If you know me you are probably not surprised that I recognized all 15 of them. I’ve been...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 1 December 2014
Well it was an interesting week for us last week. You may have heard that much of the east coast of the US was hit by a big snowstorm Wednesday – the night before...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA Leadership Gets Busy for CS Ed Week!
Did you see this on the CSTA mailing list? When the CSTA Board met recently we started talking about sharing what we were doing in our schools for Computer Science...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 24 November 2014
This will be a short week in school. Thanksgiving is Thursday in the US and my school is off for a five day weekend. I’m looking forward to a bit of a break. IShakespearean...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
TouchDevelop on Student Devices
I have this sort of love/hate relationship with web based applications. I had reason for a bit of both today. I like to introduce students to programming using ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Top Secret Rosies
This week I have been showing the movie "Top Secret Rosies" to my freshmen students. It’s a wonderful story about some long unsung heroes of both World War II and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 17 November 2014
Last week was crazy for me. Professional development day last Monday and Veterans Day on Tuesday just made things start differently. Friday was a travel day asFaces...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson