100 Teachers - Discussions

Promoting Computer Science
Posted: 10 Mar 2015 - 19:37 by: hmtcamobilecsp

Hi

I am looking for more ways to promote Computer Science. Can more people share what they have done?

1. Yes, after the 100 teachers meeting I used puppies. We called it Puppies, Pizza and Programming.

2. In February, I gave testimony on a bill to make computer programming a mandatory part of the curriculum in middle schools in CT. My partner and I are writing an article that we hope to have appear in CSTA’s Voice later this year about our experience.

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Hour of Code Success Story
Posted: 19 Dec 2014 - 11:59 by: awozniak

Hello all. I was encouraged to share my story about the Hour of Code from this year. I completed the hour of code in all of my classes (though, these are students who are already introduced to computer science) but as a way to get more people/students exposed I gave all of my students an assignment. They were to find another student at our school who is not currently in a computer science class and they were to take them through their hour of code. They had to document this event with screen shots and a picture of the two of them.

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Linux To The Rescue - It Really Did Today!
Posted: 19 Dec 2014 - 00:08 by: neil plotnick

Our guidance department took over the computer lab today to administer a special College Board (College Level Examination Program) exam for a select group of students. Since the computers were running Windows XP, the software refused to validate the platform and the test would not run. A few students tried to take the test and got kicked out from the program.

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CIO view on the Hour of Code
Posted: 12 Dec 2014 - 17:22 by: neil plotnick

http://feldman.org/blog/hour-of-code-cios/

"Coding isn’t about learning to code, it’s about becoming a systems thinker."

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