CS in the Wild - Discussions

Voronoi Tesselation: ask students to apply this algorithm to avoid future gov't shutdowns
Posted: 3 Oct 2013 - 18:19 by: Kathleen Perez-Lopez

Political polarization is caused in part by Congressional districts gerrymandered to be homogeneous enough to preserve party seats. Our representatives don't have to please a mix reflecting the whole country, or even their local region, but only of a set of like-minded constituents. What if we mandated (well, suggested or promoted) that after the next decennial Census, districts were created from a Voronoi tesselation of each state.

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Pair Programming - Avoiding epic disasters!
Posted: 7 Apr 2015 - 10:29 by: Colleen Lewis

I love having my students pair program - but to make it "work" for me I learned from a lot of my mistakes. I just had the opportunity to lead a webinar about avoiding epic disasters when using pair programming. If you missed it, you can check out the recording here:

http://air.adobeconnect.com/p3vd0mgw7l9/

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Tags: General Discussion, Teaching strategy
An article about Getting Students Excited and Engaged in Programming
Posted: 8 Dec 2014 - 09:35 by: laaronson

An article I wrote to keep students engaged and excited while they learn to program. Please enjoy.

-http://www.kcet.org/socal/departures/columns/open-classroom/how-to-get-students-excited-about-learning-to-code.html

Tags: Q&A, App Inventor, Teaching strategy, Creativity, Student activity, Unit 4: Introduction to Programming, Javascript, Programming, Python
Beauty Technology - RFIDs fingernails, conductive makeup and more
Posted: 5 Aug 2014 - 10:26 by: Kathleen Perez-Lopez

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Tags: Q&A, Creativity, CS news
Discussion of HCI Day 10: Telling A Story With Data - PUBLIC
Posted: 3 Jan 2014 - 15:06 by: mperry

Discuss your experiences teaching the HCI Day 10: Telling A Story With Data lesson plan here. This discussion in public and visible to anyone who visits the site. To join a discussion private to just ECS teachers or your own group, choose the appropriate discussion link from this lesson's curriculum page, which can be found in the link under "related content" listed below.

Tags: Curriculum, Unit 1: Human Computer Interaction, General Discussion
Discussion of Data Days 1-3: Managing Large Data Sets - PUBLIC
Posted: 19 Dec 2013 - 15:19 by: mperry

Tags: Curriculum, ECS, General Discussion, Unit 5: Computing and Data Analysis
Needed: novice CS teacher for 1 hour phone interview
Posted: 11 Dec 2013 - 18:52 by: ericsonga

Hello!

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Hour of Code Python Tutorial for High School Students
Posted: 6 Dec 2013 - 11:01 by: ericsonga

See http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/IntroPythonTurtles/index.html for a Hour of Code tutorial for high school students. It features Python program in a browser window, mutliple choice questions, Parsons Problems, and the ability to step through code line by line. It might be especially attractive for math teachers since it uses a turlte to draw geometric shapes.

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inBloom and Data Privacy
Posted: 22 Nov 2013 - 19:45 by: jsolin

An exceprt from a local parent group in Chicago is pasted below. This issue has generated great discussion in my classes on data, privacy, ethics and more.

inBloom Forum:

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Tags: Q&A, Unit 1: Human Computer Interaction, Data
The percentage of women in computer science versus other STEM fields.
Posted: 22 Nov 2013 - 14:05 by: ericsonga

Take a look at http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/women-gain-in-some-stem-fields-but-not-computer-science/?_r=3 about how the percentage of women in many STEM fields is increasing, but not in computer science. I got attracted to computing first in high school in a Basic programming class. But, I didn't expect to make a career out of it. It wasn't until I went to college and was majoring in political science that I decided to add a 2^nd

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