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Welcome
CS4HS
About today Logistics: W-9 form, evaluation at end of day The CS Principles materials
Today starts out with CS Principles. Yet MORE activities
Scratch Processing
Yet MORE information CSTA K-12 CS Curriculum Standards
And MORE activities Puzzles to Algorithms AppInventor
CS Principles
Overview
Computer Science Education Act Introduced in Both Houses (9/22/2011)
The bill focuses on K-12 education
Fund planning grants for states to work with stakeholders to assess their computer science offerings in K-12 and develop concrete steps to strengthen them.
http://techpolicy.acm.org/blog/?p=1796
Computer Science Education Act Introduced in Both Houses
Fund implementation grants for states, in partnership with local school districts and institutions of higher education, to carry out state plans by: developing state computer science standards,
curriculum, and assessments; improving access to underserved populations; building
professional development and teacher certification programs;
creating on-line courses; and, ensuring computer science offerings are an integral part of the curriculum
Computer Science Education Act Introduced in Both Houses
Establish a blue-ribbon commission to review the state of computer science education nationwide, and bring states together to address the computer science teacher certification crisis
Establish computer science teacher preparation programs at institutions of higher education
Create an independent, rigorous evaluation of state programs funded under this Act with results reported to Congress and the Administration
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/s1614
Jan Cuny (Program Officer in the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation) Her Critical Perspective begins by assessing the
current state of computer science education in the United States. Finding a significant lack of diversity among CS college graduates, and few opportunities to learn substantive computer science at K-12, she analyzes how these two problems (and others) can be addressed through focusing on pre-college education.
CS Principles
Results of Faculty ColloquiumOctober 2008
The following information reported by College Board to colloquium participants in December 2008
Rationale
66 key computer science faculty members were convened from top-tier institutions
The goal of the meeting was to inform faculty about the AP Computer Science course and exam, and to gauge interest in a potential different, future direction for AP Computer Science
Participating InstitutionsRose-Hulman Stevens Institute of TechnologyFlorida State University Harvard UniversityVirginia Tech University of Texas ArlingtonIllinois Institute of Technology University of California San DiegoSan Diego State University University of California DavisNew Jersey Institute of Technology University of Massachusetts AmherstColumbia University University of MinnesotaRice University Swarthmore CollegeUniversity of Aarhus College of William and MaryUniversity of Michigan Michigan Technological UniversityNorthwestern University University of California IrvineUniversity of South Florida Metropolitan State College of DenverUniversity of California Berkeley Florida International UniversityUniversity of Southern California Colorado School of MinesUniversity of Central Florida Creighton UniversityHarvey Mudd College University of WashingtonDartmouth College Boston UniversityPurdue University Vanderbilt UniversityMichigan State University University of FloridaBaylor University University of Texas at AustinRutgers University Carnegie Mellon UniversityIndiana University Drew UniversityUniversity of Texas at Dallas Rochester Institute of TechnologyGeorgia Institute of Technology Texas Tech UniversityGeorge Mason University University of California RiversideTufts University Princeton UniversityUniversity of Virginia The Ohio State UniversityUniversity of Wisconsin University of ArizonaDrexel University Colorado State UniversityUniversity of Illinois Bryn Mawr CollegeAmherst College Stanford UniversitySUNY Stony Brook University of HoustonUniversity of Maryland Duke University
Methodology
The AP Computer Science FC online satisfaction survey was sent out Sunday, October 26, 2008 just after the meeting ended
All 66 Computer Science Faculty Colloquium attendees responded to the survey
Executive Summary
Faculty believe that if only one AP Computer Science course is offered by the College Board, we should maintain a course such as the current AP CS A course, making incremental improvements, but keeping it focused on programming so that it aligns with the first course within the major.
However, there seems to be a desire for the current AP Computer Science A course and exam NOT to be the AP Program’s stand-alone Computer Science offering.
Executive Summary College faculty see much potential in the idea of the College
Board also providing a new and different AP Computer Science program that would broaden the appeal and perceived relevance of Computer Science and would attract a greater diversity of students to the major.
So long as the proposed new AP CS program would not replace outright the current AP CS A (programming-focused) course, there is considerable interest in the proposed new AP course.
However, they found it difficult to perceive the parameters of a proposed new course, and without a clear description of what the new course would entail, found it impossible to provide good information about the likelihood of credit, placement, and overall value of such an addition to the AP Program.
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AP Computer Science: Principles Using Computational Thinking to Model a
New Course Advanced Placement Computer Science: Principles. NSF award: $2,093,450 effective September 1,
2009 and expires August 31, 2012. Principal Investigator: Owen Astrachan, Duke
University Co – PIs:
Amy Briggs, Middlebury College Lien Diaz, The College Board, AP Program
November 2009
AP CS: Principles
Not a replacement for the current AP CS A course
Must be a course for which college credit and/or placement is given (AP)
Not designed as a required course for majors Designed to appeal to a vastly larger and more
diverse set of students
November 2009
Commission Members Don Allen – Troy HS, CA Christine Alvarado – Harvey Mudd College Stacey Armstrong, Cypress Woods High School, TX Owen Astrachan – Duke University (PI) Charmaine Bentley – FDR High School, TX Amy Briggs – Middlebury College (Co-PI) Rich Kick – Newbury Park HS, CA Mark Guzdial – Georgia Institute of Technology Jody Paul – Metropolitan State College of Denver Chris Stephenson – Executive Director, CSTA
November 2009
Advisory Group Members Duane Bailey – Williams College Tiffany Barnes – UNC Charlotte Gail Chapman – Director, Leadership and PD, CSTA Tom Cortina – Carnegie Mellon University Stephen Edwards – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dan Garcia – UC Berkeley Joanna Goode – University of Oregon Susanne Hambrusch – Purdue University Michelle Hutton – President, CSTA Deepak Kumar – Bryn Mawr College Jim Kurose – U Mass Amherst Andrea Lawrence – Spellman College Richard Pattis – UC Irvine Eric Roberts – Stanford University Katie Siek – U Colorado at Boulder Beth Simon – UC San Diego Larry Snyder – University of Washington Lynn Andrea Stein – Olin College Fran Trees – Rutgers University
November 2009
Commission and Advisory Board Commission has task of delivering framework
for course/exam using evidence centered design
Advisory board provides feedback, guidelines, advice to commission Advisory board actually advises
Timeline 2009-2010
Big Ideas, Practices, Claims/Evidence 2010-11
Pilot I: Five colleges Draft College Survey Test item prototype
2011-12 Pilot II: 10+ colleges, 10+ high schools
Possible Next Timeline Necessary and sufficient conditions to
continue How do we ensure “substantial” buy-in?
2012-2013 Curricular framework finalized? Exam format identified
Deploy exam and course 2016? 2017?
Key ideas
Computer Science Principles is designed to introduce students to the central ideas of computing and computer science, to instill ideas and practices of computational thinking, and to have students engage in activities that show how computing and computer science change the world.
Annotated Course Outline
Key Theme: Creativity
We want students to create artifacts that they want to show off to their friends and family, using simulation to explore questions that interest them, and designing and implementing solutions employing the iterative and sometimes messy process that artists, writers, and engineers use to translate ideas into tangible form.
Annotated Course Outline
Key Theme: Use of Technology Use of technology as a means for solving
computational problems and exploring creative endeavors, rather than a focus on a specific tool or language. programming is one of the seven big ideas programming is a tool students use to explore
concepts and create exciting and personally relevant artifacts.
students will work with "big-data"—to analyze it, to visualize it, to draw conclusions from trends in it
Annotated Course Outline
Key Theme: People and Society, Students will explore computer science’s
relevance to and impact on the world today. They will investigate the innovations in other
fields that computing and computer science have made possible.
They will examine the ethical implications of new computing technologies.
They will perform activities that develop their communication and teamwork skills.
They will talk and write about their solutions, the importance of these problems and their impact on the world.
Annotated Course Outline
Success in the course Compelling curriculum Engaging pedagogy
We’re not just changing content, we’re changing how Computer Science is taught and, in turn, who chooses to take it.
Annotated Course Outline
Resources Available http://www.csprinciples.org/
Seven Big Ideas, Key Concepts, Supporting Concepts
Six Computational Thinking Practices Claims and Evidence Statements