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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
This past spring semester was my first time teaching remotely but not my first time working remotely. I worked from home while working in industry for jsut over...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | June 8, 2020 at 01:16 PM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Like most K-12 teachers, a membership in a professional society like ACM or IEEE is not funded by my school. So I pay out of pocket for an ACM membership and have...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 25, 2020 at 02:07 PM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
In my end of course evaluations I asked my students if they learned better online or in the classroom. Not surprisingly, most of them said they learned better in...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 24, 2020 at 05:19 PM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
My last class of the school year just ended. My grades and report card comments are in the system. I am not going back to school in the fall. Am I retired now?...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 22, 2020 at 12:20 PM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Today I was online with my students for about 90 minutes of a planned 55 minute class. One of my students joined the Google Meet session early and we chatted for...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 19, 2020 at 01:53 PM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
My school ran a pair of online awards events yesterday. We had almost 850 people on the day time Zoom meeting and around 500 on the evening one. These are both...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 15, 2020 at 12:15 AM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Live coding or as I like to call it coding without a net is a wonderful way to teach.There was a time when I thought that having prewritten code that was pasted...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 7, 2020 at 01:49 PM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
There is already a lot of discussion about schools and the fall semester. Will we be in physical spaces again? Will we be online again? Will there be some mix? ...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 5, 2020 at 11:22 AM
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My school will be on our regularly scheduled April break next week. It’s a nice breather for me and probably for the students as well. It’s been a long time since...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 24, 2020 at 10:09 AM
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For the first time in 5 weeks I visited school today. My purpose was to clear out my personal stuff. I am retiring and I needed to get everything at some point...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 22, 2020 at 03:47 PM
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The other shoe dropped today. New Hampshire’s governor ordered public schools to continue emergency remote teaching for the rest of the school year. This was not...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 16, 2020 at 06:31 PM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
This time of year I always start thinking about the next school year. Even though I don’t expect to be teaching (announced my retirement already) I can’t stop thinking...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 14, 2020 at 01:46 PM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
John Conway died the other day. He created the famous "Conway's Game of Life" that is familiar to so many programmers and computer scientists.I've recently decided...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 13, 2020 at 02:46 PM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
While I do believe that people are the most important part of emergency remote teaching, technology does have a serious role to play. One key piece of technology...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 11, 2020 at 07:09 AM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Attendance at my emergency remote teaching classes has been very close to 100%. Frankly, this didn’t surprise me at all. Apparently I should have been surprised...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 10, 2020 at 10:46 AM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
That’s the question my students asked the most yesterday. We’re in our fourth week of remote emergency teaching and I think it is starting to wear on most of us...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 8, 2020 at 11:15 AM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
You may have noticed I didn’t post anything in this blog yesterday. Part of that is because I had to make an unexpected trip to my family’s vacation home. A neighbor...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 7, 2020 at 03:44 PM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Recently, I started reading a book about the mathematics of cryptography. (Mathematics of Secrets) Fascinating. A lot of the math is hard (to put it lightly) for...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 5, 2020 at 12:21 AM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
two of my international students have returned home to China. I spent some time talking to one of them after class today.It was interesting to talk to someone in...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 3, 2020 at 10:31 AM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
It seems like there are a large number of long Twitter treads where educators are reporting their experiences and how their school is handling this period of emergency...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 2, 2020 at 02:41 PM