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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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Popfly in the Classroom - Trip Report
First the surprising secret - students today are not all that Web 2.0 knowledgeable. Now you wouldn't get that from the media but its true. Oh sure there are a lot of young people out there creating new media, using instant messaging tools, downloading Read More...

Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 12:44 PM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Top Conversations In March
There were a number of blog posts with above average comment counts in March. The post I wrote about number systems in computer science had 9 comments. Pretty much everyone thought this was/is an important topic for computer science students. Personally Read More...

Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 7:57 AM by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments

XML in Schools - Is Now the Time?
The other day I was chatting online with a good friend of mine. Dave was a teacher but has gone back to industry. He's a SharePoint consultant these days. Its been a real learning experience for him and he seems to be enjoying it. But one of the things Read More...

Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:07 AM by Alfred Thompson | 7 Comments

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