Week 1: Why should I teach computer science?
LEARN
Intro to CS
Take a deeper dive into CS (optional)
- Watch: CS Experimentation Culture and Intro to CS with Dr. Luther Tychonievich, UVA CS Dept
- Read: CS Education Section from Creating Equitable CS Experiences Handbook
- Resources:
- Week 1 slide deck
- Virginia CS SOLs & Cross-Curricular Integration Alignment
- CS Institute 2021 Resources (please add your favorite CS resource!)
Take a deeper dive into CS (optional)
- Listen: #CSK8 Visions by Vicky Sedgwick (#CSK8 podcast)
- Do: Getting Unstuck Challenge (10 days, 10 Scratch projects)
- Watch: Coded Bias (Netflix); Crash Course Computer Science
- Read: Ethical Concerns Mount as AI Takes Bigger Decision-Making Role in More Industries (Harvard Gazette); Decode the Default: Racial Justice (Mozilla Internet Health Report)
DO
Pick 1 or 2 CS Unplugged activities to do:
Pick 1 or 2 CS lessons or activities to do:
K-2:
- Computational thinking inspired by a book with Jessa Campbell, 3rd grade teacher at Greer Elementary
- Binary bookmarks with Kim Wilkens
- More CS Unplugged activities curated by Kim Wilkens
- More CS Unplugged activities curated by Bootup
Pick 1 or 2 CS lessons or activities to do:
K-2:
- Intro to Procedures (Unplugged)
- Time Travel (ScratchJr)
- Museum of Me (ScratchJr)
- ScratchJr activity (BootUp)
- Hello Ruby
- Events in Scratch
- Time Travel (Scratch)
- Scratch project (BootUp)
- Action Fractions (fraction instruction in 3rd and 4th grade)
- Virtual Field Trip (Scratch)
- Programming Cells (Scratch)
- Game Design (Scratch)
- Choose Your Own Adventure (Twine)
- SFUSD Intro to CS (Scratch)
Connect
The 2021 CS Institute is no longer "live", so office hours are no longer available, but please contact Kim Wilkens ([email protected]) if you want to connect with the Charlottesville Computer Science Community.
Reflect
Reflection is an important part of the computer science education journey. We have created an online Reflection Journal for you to keep notes. If you would like to share this back out with us for research purposes that would be great, but not required.
