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Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson

Alfred Thompson's blog about teaching computer science at the K-12 level. Alfred was a high school computer science teacher for 8 years. He has also taught grades K-8 as a computer specialist. He has written several textbooks and project books for teaching Visual Basic in high school and middle school. Alfred is the K-12 Computer Science Academic Relations Manager for Microsoft and is trying to be the Microsoft Education Blogger.

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What Does It Take to Make Change in CS Education?
This started out as a comment on Mark Guzdial’s blog post What changes CS Education? which you of course must read. No really. I’ll even wait. Back? OK a key summary jumped out at me: My first pass analysis suggests that, to make change in CS, invent Read More...

Posted Friday, September 18, 2009 3:36 PM by Alfred Thompson | 5 Comments

Interesting Links August 24 2009
As I put this summary together I’m just about ready to head to Redmond WA by way of Seattle in the morning. Early in the morning. Even earlier than my wife gets up to go to school.  It’s my first trip to  the Microsoft headquarters area in over Read More...

Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 4:26 AM by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments

Interesting Links Twittered July 20 2009
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Posted Monday, July 20, 2009 4:54 AM by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments

Kodu Demo – Programming for little kids
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Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 4:46 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Interesting Links July 6th 2009
Last week was NECC and boy was I ever busy. On the other hand the places on the Internet were slow in some ways and busy in others. The education Twitter space was all NECC all the time. Many education bloggers were not blogging because they were just Read More...

Posted Monday, July 06, 2009 5:06 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Come Find Me at NECC
Early tomorrow I get to the airport to fly to Washington DC for NECC. Saturday is the CS&IT Symposium run by the Computer Science Teachers Association ( CSTA ) with sponsorship from Microsoft Research, Intel and some company that sells ads on Internet Read More...

Posted Thursday, June 25, 2009 9:24 AM by Alfred Thompson | 3 Comments

FDG 2009 Day Three
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Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:08 PM by Alfred Thompson | 2 Comments

SIGCSE 2009 Day 1
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Posted Thursday, March 05, 2009 10:06 PM by Alfred Thompson | 5 Comments

TCEA 2009 Day One
So I arrived in Austin Monday evening and settled down at my hotel. I’m a short walk from the convention center which I’m pretty pleased about. Today was a sort of pre-conference day for me. That is to say that I didn’t have much assigned work to do. Read More...

Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2009 10:36 PM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

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