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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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Where are all the high school computer science students
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Posted Tuesday, March 03, 2009 5:18 AM by Alfred Thompson | 4 Comments

Internet Safety for the Whole Family
I gave a presentation to parents at a local middle school last night about Internet safety. One of the things I left them with was a collection of useful links and online references for parents, teachers, and students. This seemed like a pretty useful Read More...

Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 4:13 AM by Alfred Thompson | 3 Comments

LearnScratch.ORG
I keep learning cool things from Twitter. No really. The people I follow are often doing interesting and educational things and sharing via Twitter. Last week someone posted a Tweet about http://learnscratch.org/ . I made a note to visit the site and Read More...

Posted Thursday, November 13, 2008 6:00 AM by Alfred Thompson | 1 Comments

Computer Science for Middle School
I spent yesterday at a large STEM event in Denver Colorado. Something like 1,500 middle school girls were brought to the Colorado Convention center for workshops and talks about science, technology and engineering. My colleague Hilary Pike conducted several Read More...

Posted Thursday, November 06, 2008 12:22 PM by Alfred Thompson | 3 Comments

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