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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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Interesting Links November 16 2009
Early in the week last week the @ tcea Twitter account tweeted (Twittered?) "They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." Anonymous That has sort of been my thought for the week. How do we make our students Read More...

Posted Monday, November 16, 2009 5:59 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

Wait while I look that up on the Internet
Recently I have been doing some mock interviews with high school students. I have some business cards with a coded message on the backs with a challenge for students to solve the code. For a number of the mock interviews I handed the student one of these Read More...

Posted Wednesday, November 11, 2009 10:25 AM by Alfred Thompson | 3 Comments

Interesting Links November 9 2009
Welcome to this week’s collection of interesting links. Some of these I found on Twitter, some on various blogs, and some came by email from various people. I hope you find something useful here. The Innovative Teacher Network is now the new Partners Read More...

Posted Monday, November 09, 2009 5:09 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

When the power goes off in the computer lab
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Posted Tuesday, July 14, 2009 3:30 PM by Alfred Thompson | 9 Comments

Jeannette Wing on Computational Thinking
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Posted Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:31 AM by Alfred Thompson | 0 Comments

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