August Meeting:Summer Conference Recap

12 August 2015@HalSpeed @TACSEd

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Thank You Sponsors!

Partners

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Agenda

Summer Conference Recap Code for All and TeachCS – Wes & Ryan Google CS First and CTCSC Teach CS – Carol Resources & Curricula – Deborah Mobile AP CSP – Hal

Summer Conference Town Hall “Pass the Mic”

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Free Computer Science Clubswww.cs-first.com

CS First

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Theme-Based Clubs• Each CS First club is based on a real-world theme and offers about

10 hours worth of lessons and activities.

• The different club themes aim to attract and engage students of varying backgrounds and interests.

• All materials are targeted at students in 4th - 8th grades (or between the ages of 9 - 14) and are free and easy to use.

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Calling All Volunteers - No CS Experience Needed• You don’t need computer science experience to host a CS First

club.

• All you need is• Access to a location• A computer for each participant• A group of students

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TEACH CS● Online prep course for Grades 8-12 Computer Science teacher certification exam

● Pilot/Prototype face-to-face training○ July 25, 2015○ October 12-13, 2015

● MOOC development Fall 2015, Spring 2016

● MOOC deployment Summer 2016

● We need your feedback!

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Resources and CurriculaThroughout the summer several Work-Shops and Conferences provided a wealth of resources and curricula for beginning teachers and advance teachers alike.

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Resources and CurriculaResources that are have are from the following sitesTRC & TCEA resources

1. http://www.thetrc.org/computer-science-curriculum-and-resources/

2. http://texascomputerscience.weebly.com/teks--courses.html

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Resources and CurriculaCollege Board Resources

3. http://www.thetrc.org/computer-science-curriculum-and-resources/4. https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap-computer-science-a-course-description.pdf

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Resources and CurriculaCSTA and ACM

5. http://csta.acm.org/Curriculum/sub/CurrFiles/CSTA_K-12_CSS.pdf

6. ACM TechNews http://www.acm.org/

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Resources and CurriculaUniversity of Texas

7. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/outreach/first-bytes8. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~engage/ -CS10K

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Resources and CurriculaSyllabus & Teaching Resources• John Owen O(N)CS Lessons. Owen Computer Science Lessons

http://oncslessons.net/• Stacy Armstrong

http://www.apluscompsci.com/author.htm• Leon Schram

http://www.schram.org/

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AP CS Principles – 2016-2017

Computational Thinking Practices

1. Connecting Computing2. Creating Computational

Artifacts3. Abstracting4. Analyzing Problems and

Artifacts5. Communicating6. Collaborating

apcsprinciples.org

Big Ideas1. Creativity2. Abstraction3. Data and Information4. Algorithms5. Programming6. The Internet7. Global Impact

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AP Computer Science A AP Computer Science Principles

Curriculum is focused on object-oriented programming and problem solving

Curriculum is built around fundamentals of computing including problem solving, working with data, understanding the internet, cyber security, and programming

Java is the designated programming language Teachers choose the programming language(s)

Encourages skill development among students considering a career in computer science and other STEM fields

Encourages a broader participation in the study of computer science and other STEM fields

AP assessment experience• Multiple-choice and free-response questions

(written exam)

AP assessment experience:• Two performance tasks students complete

during the course to demonstrate the skills they have developed (digital artifacts)

• Multiple-choice questions (written exam)

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AP CSP Curricula

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~engage/

https://www.pltw.org/our-programs/pltw-computer-science

http://mobile-csp.org/

https://code.org/educate/csp

http://bjc.berkeley.edu/

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Mobile CSP and App Inventor

https://sites.google.com/site/csta2015mobilecspworkshop/https://ram8647.appspot.com/teach_mobileCSP/

MIT AI2Companion

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Town Hall Discussion on Summer Activities

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“Pass the Mic”

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SXSWedu PanelPicker

CS Fundamental to K-12: Hal Speed, et al (/56485) CS10K Teacher Training: Carol Fletcher, et al (/53114) CS Public/Private Partnerships: Carol Fletcher, Lori Ham, Erin Cannon (/56405) CoderDojo: Garima Singh (/50169) Digital Play: Julie Shannan, et al (/52313) Girls in STEM: Tricia Berry, et al (/53662) How College is Failing Programmers: Nick Hahn, et al (/56230) Keeping the Ed in EdTech: Sean Duffy, Sabina Bharwani, et al (/51281) Coding Schools: Harsh Patel, et al (/51436) Linking Dropout Rates to Economic Recovery: Drew Scheberle, et al (/49951) RAISEup Texas: E3 Alliance (/47257) Code.org: Hadi Partovi (/52276)

http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote

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STEMed Labs Community Series

Kick-off meeting Saturday August 15th

3:00-4:30pm Windsor Park Library

Raspberry Pi, Scratch and STEMbridge demos Discussion about open/collaborative education in Austin http://www.stemedlabs.org/community-series/

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Thank you for attending!Next meeting Wednesday September 9th