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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
I’m always skeptical about celebrity keynotes at education conferences so my expectations for Natasha Singer from the New York Times.were not high. I was pleasantly...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 9, 2019 at 10:47 PM
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As planned I spent most of the morning helping at registration. And talking to a lot of people as they came in. After lunch the exhibit hall opened and I was in...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 8, 2019 at 09:20 PM
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Sunday was the start of CSTA 2019 with workshops and the Chapter Leadership Summit. I wasn’t part of the summit and I didn’t get to any workshops but I still had...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 8, 2019 at 12:31 PM
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I’m on my way to Phoenix AZ for the CSTA conference. For years I would get there early and leave late. This was especially true when I was on the CSTA Board and...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 7, 2019 at 09:46 AM
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There was a time when I would have written a blog post every night of ISTE. Apparently I’m getting older or something and that is not a priority for me any more...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | June 30, 2019 at 02:18 PM
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I found an interesting article today New Hampshire installs first historical marker to honor computer programming The BASIC programming language was invented at...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | June 16, 2019 at 07:51 PM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Summer time is time for me to do a lot of thinking about my teaching practice. I've been doing a lot of reading and a couple of quotes have helped me in my thinking...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | June 13, 2019 at 07:27 AM
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What to teach and how to teach are different questions. The first is all about content knowledge and the second is about pedagogy. For the most part it feels like...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | June 12, 2019 at 07:45 AM
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At it’s best, social computing is a conversation that moves in a positive direction. The more people who participate the better the conversation and the more benefit...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | June 11, 2019 at 11:08 AM
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A recent Facebook post suggested changing the language for Advanced Placement Computer Science A (what some of us annoy others by calling AP Java). This comes up...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | June 9, 2019 at 07:43 PM
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Garth Flint had another good post today (Last Day of School And Done with Java) He lists some interesting projects he assigned and writes about some lessons learned...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | June 7, 2019 at 08:12 PM
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My programming students are working on their final/semester projects. As is typical some of them are doing extra work on their projects at home. Normally that is...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 31, 2019 at 06:45 PM
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It’s the end of the school year for me. Next week is our final exam week and my students are working on their semester projects. I use projects rather than an exam...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 29, 2019 at 08:36 AM
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Brett Becker has been blogging about the ACM CompEd conference now taking place in China. See his blog post at ACM CompEd daily update 1: Day 1 for example. Looks...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 17, 2019 at 06:25 PM
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For most of my teaching career I have been focused on teaching computer science in stand alone computer science classes. And I really like teaching computer science...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 16, 2019 at 09:53 AM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
One of the reasons I held on to my Windows Phone as long as I did is that it was so easy to program apps for it. I had come to depend on one particular app I wrote...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 4, 2019 at 08:40 PM
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Omidyar Network, Mozilla, Schmidt Futures, and Craig Newmark Philanthropies recently announced the winners of the Responsible Computer Science Challenge. The challenge...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 1, 2019 at 10:00 AM
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I confess that I have not watched a single episode of Game of Thrones. That doesn’t mean I am oblivious to the social impact of the show. My online social media...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 29, 2019 at 09:34 AM
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Garth Flint has an interesting post about grading programming projects (It is never easy) in which he talks about the interesting solutions students come up with...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 21, 2019 at 06:43 PM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
It’s been said that the three hardest things in programming are naming things and off by one errors. For some reason, this semester, my students are having the...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 18, 2019 at 04:20 PM