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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
Post-secondary Cybersecurity Curricular Recommendations
There is more computer science than we could ever cover in grades K-12. So much of it is important and exciting. Every parent open house I get suggestions for what...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Toys or Tools
Are we using toys or tools to teach computers science? The cute little robots for example. Or Micro:bit? or any number of other fun little gadgets that we use to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Guest Hosting a TweetMeet on CS and Hour of Code #MSFTEduChat
Computer Science Education week is fast approaching. It's a big week and one of the big activities for a lot of teachers, students, and schools is the Hour of Code...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Do We Define a Successful High School Computer Science Program?
Mark Guzdial has an interesting post asking When do we know that a programming course is not working for non-CS majors? The focus of the post is undergraduate level...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Computer Science Teachers to Teach CS
My teaching style, especially in the first years, was greatly influenced by the man who taught me computer science. A wonderful man who really instilled a loveexample...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming Projects Should Be Personal
I’m always looking for new projects. I find them in the strangest places. Facebook for one. And some not so strange places. The AP CS Principles curriculum from...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Propose a Presentation for the CSTA Annual Conference 2019
CSTA just announced the Call for Proposals. for the CSTA Annual Conference just days after I blogged (Getting Computer Science Teachers To The Next Level ) that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Getting Computer Science Teachers To The Next Level
A number of related (well in my eyes anyway) have got me thinking about how we need to develop computer science teachers. Phil Bagge’s post Developing Teacher Agency...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA New England Regional Conference 2018
This is the second of these conferences. How I missed the first year I don’t remember but I’m glad I made it to this one. The conference was held at Rhode Island...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Nominate Someone as a 2018 Champion of Computer Science
Know someone or some organization or some school responsible for doing great things in computer science education? Maybe they should be nominated for this award...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Imperative to Teach Ethics
Ethics has been on my mind a lot lately. Last week, the ACM had a Twitter chat around the ACM Code of Ethics using the hashtag #ACMCodeOfEthics.It took place during...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Professional Development Is Expensive–Who Should Pay For It?
I first started to appreciate the cost of professional development when I was working with and for Microsoft. Microsoft at the time was working hard to promoteMoving...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ACM to Host Twitter Chat on Ethics in Computing October 18
On Thursday, October 18, ACM will host a Twitter chat on ethics in computing beginning at 11:00 a.m. EDT (15:00 UTC). During the chat, ACM will post discussion@TheOfficialACM...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Join the #CSK8 Twitter Char 17 October 2018
These are great chats with a lot of wonderful people sharing ideas about computer science in grades K through 8.Join us for #csk8 chat on Wed, 10/17, at 5pm PT/6pm...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Lossy Text Compression Project
My motto has long been "steal from the best" at least when it comes to teaching resources. Today I found a good project from Code.org. I'm using their AdvancedCode...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Origin–Dan Brown Takes on Artificial Intelligence
I avoided buying Origin by Dan Brown for about a year.While I really liked The Davinci Code, I have been disappointed with his other books. Recently I saw thatThree...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Does My Phone Number Spell?
Project ideas are everywhere. Today a friend apparently spent some time figuring out what words his phone number spelled. It turns out that there are several web...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Qualifies You to Teach Computer Science?
Several years ago a parent at an open house asked me the question in the title of this post. He seemed happy with the response. My resume is pretty good I think...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
If you are using global variables you are doing it wrong
One of the hard things for students to learn is simplicity. Beginners tend to over complicate things. In part this is because they lack the full toolbox early in...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson