Focusing on Problem-Centered Programming Instruction Stephen Hughes (Coe College) and J. Philip East (U North Iowa) shughes@coe.edu east@cs.uni.edu In 2013, Stephen and Philip began discussing what programming instruction might look like if it focused on the problems being programmed rather than … Continue reading
Category Archives: Hardie Fellowship 2015
CSTA Day 3 PM – Using Minecraft in the Middle School to Teach Programming: Bob Irving
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Using Minecraft in the MS to Teach Programming: Bob Irving Bob Irving, Porter-Gaud School, SC birving@portergaud.com @birv2 www-bob-irving.com – Background – not CS teacher, was English teacher. Minecraft has taken the world by storm. Its quirky, 8-bit graphics and open … Continue reading
CSTA Day 2 AM: Out of Your Seat Comp Sci -Coding Using the Kinect
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Out of Your Seat Comp Sci: Coding Using the Kinect (Doug Bergman) www.innovativeteacher.org @dougbergman Doug Bergman, Porter-Gaud School, Charleston SC – K-12 In this session we looked at code and coding for kinetic movement in the Computer Science classroom using the … Continue reading
CSTA Day 2 PM: TouchDevelop and Creative Coding through Games and Apps
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TouchDevelop and the CCGA course- Michael Braun and Peli de Halleux Would you like to integrate coding into any grade-level classroom? Peli de Halleux of Microsoft Research and Michael Braun K-12 Computer Science Teacher shared a revolutionary new web-based technology … Continue reading
CSTA Day 2 AM- Code.org K-5 courses.
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Josh Caldwell from code.,org, Kiki Prottsman (Kiki vs IT) and Evelyn Zayas tweet at @teachCode, #CodeorgPD The complete Course 1-3 curriculum book is located here:https://code.org/curriculum/docs/k-5/complete.pdf Course 1 – non-readers Course 2 – readers ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ztZYKsDpM-365DCyZ0Wr_1WyOCNMqZ91n_mtVmzZQmA/edit ) You will find helpful … Continue reading
CSTA 2015 – coding opportunities from Google
CSTA 2015 – Day 1: Media Computation in Python
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Sunday 12 July – Computer Science Teachers Association Workshop – Media Computation in Python Mark Guzdial and Barbara Ericson, Georgia Tech This session provided insight into a different approach to learning programming in Python by using it to directly manipulate (at content … Continue reading
Stanford Summer Teaching Institute – Day 1 Part 3: some basic classroom tools
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Nearpod (originally developed at Stanford as a smaller environment than LMS etc for direct classroom interaction). Use CVEPT as example PIN Allows instructor to control and push out slides and activities to students Example use – identify item with same first … Continue reading
Stanford Summer Teaching Institute – Day 1 Part 2: PD characteristics
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Keynote from Janet Carlson, Executive Director CSET https://cset.stanford.edu/people/faculty re role of SSTI and CSET mission. What counts in professional development: can apply and implement has an immediate and long-term application practical and applicable. quality and based on research recent teacher practice … Continue reading
Stanford Summer Teaching Institute – Day 1 Part 1: Digital Literacy
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Instructors: Pam Levine, Shawn Nak-Kyung (Shawn) Kim Goals for course framework for integrating ICT confidence in approaching ed tec case studies small number of new tools and practices See https://docs.google.com/document/d/129ERfDasxbObs30ZpnnCbhExMqGEp9WdOPJcuqaWToE/edit for all course outlines Quadrant exercise: Look at aspects of your classroom … Continue reading