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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
Why Experience Matters
A recent Dilbert cartoon had a man saying
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Joint Call for Research on Why Computer Science Education is Important for K-12
As much as we believe and try to make the case that studying computer science is good for all students, there is a profound lack of research to actually support...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
GiveCamp Across America
GiveCamp Across America
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 10 January 2011
Yesterday I got the
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
To IDE or Not To IDE
One of the controversial issues that keeps coming up in computer science education is the role of the IDE
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Measure 21st Century Teaching and Learning at Your School Today!
I just saw an announcement of an interesting new program from Microsoft
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Seven Reasons to Teach Windows 7 Programming
I had an email from Pat Yongpradit over New Year’s week end. Pat is an award winning high school computer science teacher whose students do impressive work under...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Imagine Cup News January 20111
Are you back at school yet? Hope you had a good holiday break. I know I did. The other day I got the Imagine Cup newsletter via email and thought that this might...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 3 January 2011
Happy New Year! I hope your year is off to a good start. I know mine is. I
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
My Most Read Posts of 2010
For the most part I want to focus on the future and not the past. But I did want to take one look back at traffic to this blog over the course of 2010. I have rough...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Top Ten Indications You Are A Computer Industry Newbie
Just for fun and because I am old[ish]. But more seriously, because people should know the history of computer science and the computer industry so as not to repeat...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 27 December 2010
If you are like me and like most teachers you are still on vacation. You have had enough of celebrations and eating large meals and finally have some time to think...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
An old-fashioned ASCII Art image to wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy New Year! Maligayang Pasko at Manigong Bagong Taon Boas Festas e Feliz Ano Novo ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
High School Computing Is Boring
Periodically I check the list of searches that lead people to this blog. And there are a lot of different items. I’m always supposed at how many people are searching...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thinking Speed over Typing Speed
Last week I ran across a blog post by John D Cook titled How much does typing speed matter? that got into the debate over how fast programmers should be able to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How not to teach programming
Through the wonders of DZone I came across a blog post called Don't teach like you code. The target audience seems to be professional coders who are teaching beginners...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 20 December 2010
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From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Teacher Education
Mark Guzdial makes a strong case that the Best hope for CS Teacher Education is in-service, not pre-service. Basically there is not enough demand for strong pre...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft bliink
I’ve talked about Bliink in the past. (See bliink) Over the last couple of years Microsoft has run this web development competition in schools across the county...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson