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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
Looking Back On CSEdWeek 2012
Last week was Computer Science Education week aka CSEdWeek. This was by far the biggest most active CSEdWeek yet. There are over 3,400 pledges to do something...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 17 December 2012
Five school days until Christmas. Well at my house at least. Are you taking some time off for the holiday season or will you be filling a lot of the time with grading...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Calling all US High School CS Teachers: Please give us your thoughts!
You may be seeing this announcement on other blogs or websites. If so I apologize for the repetition. But I do believe this is an important project. An important...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hackety Hack for Learning Ruby Programming
This being CSEdWeek (Computer Science Education Week) the social media has been flooded with links to articles, information, great programs for promoting CS education...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Call for Proposals Annual CSTA Conference 2013
This call for proposals for the 2012 Annual CSTA Conference went out to members of the Computer Science Teachers Association this week. One doesn’t have to be a...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming With Blocks
Syntax is a royal pain in the neck for beginning programmers. It’s hard to teach both a new (programming) language and a new way of thinking and problem solving...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 10 December 2012
It’s Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek)! Are you celebrating? As part of the celebration I’ll be joining other tech and computing leaders in a CSEdWeekAlfredTwo...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows Guy Buys An iPad
In a move that had one of my friends deciding that maybe the Mayan forecast of the end of the world was true and another suggesting a tiny bit of hell had frozen...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Declare the Variables First
Back in the early days of programming one pretty much had to declare ones variables before writing any useful code. COBOL had (probably still has) a special section...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Sharing is Learning
Last week was a great week for sharing among teachers. Microsoft ran their Partners in Learning Global Forum in Prague Czech Republic. They had 500 educators from...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Advice to Microsoft Education Marketing–Computer Science
For nine years my job at Microsoft was to promote the use of Microsoft technology in computer science education. I started with universities but moved over to K12...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 3 December 2012
Last week was about getting some professional development time. I spent two days at the Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference where I attended some good sessions...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft’s Imagine Cup
One of the really interesting events that Microsoft runs is a set of competitions called the Imagine Cup. These competitions are international events that challenge...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Day With a Windows 8 Slate
One the the farewell presents from Microsoft (actually something I won in a company promotion) was a Samsung Series 7 slate running Windows 8. It’s a very nice...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Do You Want To Make?
As I mentioned yesterday (Cool Toys For Teaching Software and Engineering) I am attending the Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference this week. Not a lot of computer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Cool Toys For Teaching Software and Engineering
I’m attending the Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference this week and spent the morning in the exhibit hall. Most of the hall is stuff I’m not that interested...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Words Matter
Not long ago someone tweeted “Stop using "guru," "ninja," and other terms for job descriptions. You are a Sparkly Code Princess. Own it!” It’s been running though...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 26 November 2012
Last week was Thanksgiving in the US and for me it meant a lot of good food and family time. Among other things my son and I built a new dock. It’s the kind ofThe...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 - Ironman v0.8 Draft Available for Comments
Dear Colleagues, We are happy to announce the availability of the ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 - Ironman v0.8 draft. The draft is available at...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson