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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
Debugging Student Code
I confess that I love to debug code. I think I’d rather fix broken code and remove bugs than write original code from scratch. All that set up and stuff is tedious...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Get Involved in Hour of Code 2013
Last week, Code.Org and others announced the Hour of Code to the world. Now backed by Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, LinkedIn, Mark Zuckerberg, CSTA, the College...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
We Are the Faces of Computing Poster Contest!
In honor of CSEdWeek, CSTA’s Equity Committee will be hosting its annual poster competition "We Are the Faces of Computing". This contest invites students of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programmable Robots for Young Students
Play-I is a new start up using crowd funding to develop a pair of programmable robots for young students. I have a thing for robots. And these robots are pretty...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 28 October 2013
The first quarter at my school closed last Friday. The year seems to be flying by. I guess it is true what they say about time flying when you are having fun. I...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Twitter Recommendations for CS Educators
Some time ago I wrote a post on top CS education people to follow on Twitter. It was very objective as I took the people on my CS Educator Twitter list and ranked...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Would a TV Show Fix the CS Recruitment Program?
A recent article in the New York Times called “I am Woman, Watch me Hack” brought up an idea I hear expressed pretty regularly. The idea is that the right TV show...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Closing the Gender Gap in Computer Science infographic
I get email about posting things to my blog pretty regularly. Often the items have little or no relevance to my usual topics and I ignore them. Sometimes they are...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 21 October 2013
Windows 8.1 came out last week. I’ve updated one of my computers so far. Seems to go well so far. I’ll probably update the rest of my computers during the week....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Deadline for Proposals for CSTA Conference Approaching
The deadline for session and workshop proposals for the 2014 CSTA conference on K-12 computer science education is November 15, 2013. In addition to 3-hour workshops...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Career Technical Schools and Computer Science
Over the years I have gotten involved with a number of career technical schools in New England. Several in New Hampshire where I live and several in Massachusetts...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
AP Computer Science or AP Art History
The news came across my social media links that last year more students took the Advanced Placement Art History exam than took the AP Computer Science exam. Given...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 14 October 2013
Last week was Leif Erikson Day. Today in the US we celebrate some Italian guy who came to North America later. So I have no school. I’ll take it. A lot of stuff...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Chemistry, Computer Science and the Nobel Prize
There is no Nobel Prize in Computer Science. We do have the Turing Award which is as close as we get. It’s not as well known as the Nobel Prize though so when scientists...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Programming Is Women’s Work
When two related posts come though my screen at about the same time it always screams for me to write a blog post. That’s the case today as I saw Why schoolgirls...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
American Computer Science League (ACSL)
This was posted to the CSTA announcement list. I don’t have first hand experience but I hear good things. Computer contests for high school students are available...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 7 October 2013
I’m staring off today with two other sets of links. Some good resource lists created by some friends of mine. Joe Kmoch has a great list of CS and IT educational...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Problem Solving
One of the things we like to say learning computer science in general and programming in particular leads to is learning problem solving. It’s a nice theory and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Spirit of Innovation Challenge
A new competitive event for students via this announcement from the CSTA mailing list. >The Spirit of Innovation Challenge is an excellent way to help your students...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson