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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 Don’t Universities Require Computer Science?
We talk a lot about requiring computer science as a high school graduation requirement. It is an issue that is not without controversy. (Should Palo Alto students...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Through Stories
This time of year I think a lot about how I teach. There is something about the end of the year and evaluating how much my students have (or have not) learned that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching the History of Computing
History is important. We’ve all heard, if not quoted, the adage that “those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Mark Guzdial has a blog post...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Can I Plan For Next Year Yet?
My school has a couple of weeks left but it’s getting close. My Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles students have taken their AP exam. My own exam for...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Does It Matter What Programming Languages We Teach in High School
I’m tempted to just leave this post blank and see what sort of comments it gets. But I am incapable of that. Sorry. Assuming we are preparing high school students...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Academically rigorous is incomplete without computer science
Mark Guzdial linked to this post on his blog - Feeling disadvantaged in CS courses at University of XXX – Original post at Minimal exposureInteresting line from...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming is easy. Debugging is hard.
I may be in a minority in this but in some ways the most fun part of my job is debugging student code. Students are very clever at wring code that doesn’t workMy...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Visual Studio Live Share–Something CS Teachers Can Use?
Microsoft is having their big MS Build event this week. I don’t have time to watch it live but I have been seeing hints of things via social media. Most of what...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
My Code is the Same as Yours But Mine Doesn’t Work
We're all heard it from students "My code is the same as yours but mine doesn't work." The implication is clear – it is the computer's fault that the program...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are You In On the Social Media Conversation around CS Education?
Today is the absolute deadline for my students in Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles to upload their Create Performance Task to the Digital Portfolio...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science K-12: Imagining the possibilities!
My friend Doug Bergman has a new book out called Computer Science K-12: Imagining the possibilities!I reviewed drafts of the book while it was being written and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Arrays, Loops, and Racing Horses
One of the things I like about using Visual Studio and C# (and Visual Basic for that matter) is the ability to easily create some fun graphical projects. I’ve been...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Training The Next Generation of Computer Science Teachers
The biggest problem in computer science education is training the teachers we need. That seems to be the big thing on my social media in the last few days.ThisMark...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teachers For Now or Teachers Forever?
One really can get a lot out of following Twitter hashtags from conferences and other events. Today I saw the following Tweet:This in a nutshell is the concern#Home4CS...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Can We Afford a Digitally Illiterate Congress?
Like many people I found the Zuckerberg Congressional Hearings disturbing on several levels. Yes, there are some serious issues with Facebook and other Internet...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why Programmers Need To Ask Questions
I keep seeing suggestions that people don’t need to learn programming because computers will do it better. I am skeptical. In part I am a skeptic because I have...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Idealism and Computer Science
Idealism is a good thing. Well, mostly it is. This morning I heard Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg say that Facebook was too idealistic about somethings and that lead...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thoughts on where CS education tools come from
TouchDevelop is being retired. It’s not the first tool with educational use to be retired by Microsoft. Or from other companies either. While I have used TouchDevelop...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Phillips Academy Capture the Flag 2018
Those of you with interests in working on cybersecurity with your high school students this Capture the Flag event will find this to be of interest.PACTF is back...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson