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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
CS Educator Interviews: The Index
In June of 2013 I started collecting interviews with computer science educators. The plan was to highlight people doing interesting things at a wide range of schools...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Ian McTavish
For today's computer science educator interview we head north of the (US) border to Huntsville High School in Huntsville, Ontario, Canada and talk with Ian McTavish...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
TouchDevelop–Acceleration and GameLoop
Happy Fourth of July! If you are on the Internet today it should be for fun. For that reason I recorded a little video of using TouchDevelop to demo the GameLoop...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Myra Deister
Today’s computer science teacher interview is with Myra Deister from Sunny Hills High School in sunny California! As you will read Myra faces some challenges in...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Education Interview: Pat Yongpradit–Code.org
Pat Yongpradit has been an award winning computer science teacher at Springbrook High School for a number of years. He has taken high school teams to the national...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 1 July 2013
I started a new series I am calling CS Educator Interviews last week. The first two interviews posted are with Kathleen Weaver and Garth Flint. Check them out when...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Kathleen Weaver
For the second in my series of blog interviews with computer science educators I present Kathleen Weaver from Hillcrest High School in Dallas Texas. Texas is a...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Education Act (CSEA)
This looks like a very good piece of legislation. The basic idea is not to create new programs or additional spending but to reduce barriers to creating more computer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Garth Flint
One of my summer projects is to collect stories from different computer science teachers. There are many teachers in many types of schools and many of them often...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 24 June 2013
Second year in a row I am not at ISTE this week. I understand that there are twice as many computer science sessions this year than last. That’s a good thing and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Computer Science: Profession or Craft
A recent report on the quality of teacher training has stirred up a lot of discussion about how teachers should be prepared. With the ongoing shortage of qualified...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Your GPA Doesn’t Mean Anything Useful
A recent interview in the New York Times with Laszlo Bock, senior vice president of people operations at Google had some interesting things to say about the value...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Two Sides: APCS Principles
Last week there was an announcement of a multi-year $5.2 million grant from the NSF to fund creation of a new Advanced Placement Computer Science course calledCS...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Two Sides: Putting Industry Professionals in the Classroom
Mark Guzdial is one of the people I most respect in the area of computer science education so when he says something is good or bad I tend to take it very seriously...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 17 June 2013
First Monday of “summer vacation” and my grading is done and have been submitted. You know what that means! Yep, working on my lesson plans for August. Two brand...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Free Computers For ISTE Attendees
Wow! Free computers. Hard to ignore that one. If you are heading out to San Antonia for ISTE 2013 Microsoft has a deal for you. They are giving away free Microsoft...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
They Just Don’t Seem To Get It
An article was published yesterday with the very optimistic title of Computer Science May Become Mandatory Part of Mass Public School Curriculum. If you read the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Parallel Processing And Data Analysis And Chocolate
We’re working on a new course for next year. It’s based to some extent from the Exploring Computer Science course but with some modifications to fit our schoolM&Ms...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
TouchDevelop Demo: Simple Turtle Graphics
My latest TouchDevelop video demo. In this one we use a simple turtle graphics program to demonstrate: Turtle graphics, a basic loop, and some TouchDevelop editing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson