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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
An Hour of Code–Now What?
By just about any of the usual measures (people involved, media attention, VIP endorsements) this year’s CS Education Week was a huge success. We’ve had a couple...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
MOOCs For Teacher Training–Not a Fan
Mark Guzdial shared some news about Google’s CS4HS program on Facebook today. Google's program to fund high school teacher professional development in CS willhttps...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 16 December 2013
I tweeted a lot last week. I mean a real lot. Made it hard to sift through for the stuff with more lasting value than just all the great Computer Science Education...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
11 Things Blog Meme
Doug Peterson tagged me in this blogging meme. This isn’t normally the sort of thing that I do on this blog but it’s Doug Peterson! Doug is one of the nicest people...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Teacher Interview: Emmanuel Schanzer
Over the summer I posted a series of interviews with computer science educators. (see the index at CS Educator Interviews: The Index) ) One of the people I really...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Does Computer Science Count in Your State?
Computer science only counts as a graduation credit (usually in either math or science) in 15 states. In most states a computer science class can be an elective...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why I Write Code
I’ve been programming for about 40 years now. That’s a long time in Internet time. Honestly in some ways it is more fun now then ever and it started off as funDecember...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
That Is Not My Name
My first major in college was Sociology. I did finish it along with a second major in Systems Analysis (few CS majors existed back in the dark ages) and to some...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 9 December 2013
Today is Grace Hopper’s birthday. An amazing woman I was fortunate enough to meet while in college and hear speak several times during my career. It’s also part...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are you learning fast enough?
Erik Meijer is one of the awesome people I get to meet while I worked at Microsoft. Earlier today he tweeting something that really made me think. If you don't...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming Languages for Middle School
There may be quick questions but are there any quick answers? I had the following Tweet recently. @alfredtwo Hi Alfred! Quick question: what prog. language...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Do You Know It Works?
I have been teaching Visual Basic programming to my freshmen this week. It’s part of a course we call Explorations in Computer Science and its new this year. The...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
TEALS (Technology Education and Literacy in Schools) Looking for Partner Schools
TEALS is an interesting program started by a Microsoft employee some years ago. It taps the enthusiasm and expertise of industry professionals who work with classroom...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Announcing DyslexicGamemakers.com
Know any dyslexic students who are interested in creating video games and build some skills? They may find this announcement interesting. We are proud to announce...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Is Computer Science According To Search Engines
Inspired by an image I saw from a talk by Dr. Tom Crick (@DrTomCrick) I decided to see what the more popular search engines returned as search aids when a user...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 2 December 2013
It was a short work week for me last week. Well as far as school was concerned. Only two days. I spent no time the rest of the week on school work. Not a completely...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Fun With Meme Generator
Some things are hard to stop once you start. I’ve been having some fun with a site called memegenerator.net A couple of my attempts are below. I first used it for...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How is Computer Science NOT a 21st Century Skill
I had to do this. I really did. I am so tired of schools claiming that they are teaching 21st century skills (what ever that means) but not offering a computer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hour of Code Update 26 November 2013
The Hour of Code events for CS Ed Week is shaping up to be really big. Are you involved? Here's an update I got from the founder of code.org this week. We announced...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson