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An article about Getting Students Excited and Engaged in Programming

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 ...

Discussion - laaronson - 8 Dec 2014 - 09:35 - 0 comments - 2 groups

GIS mapping website

http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline This website allows teahers to learn about GIS mapping and how to use the online storymapping software.  I am sure this is a Unit 5 topic, but since we do not complete all units in Utah, I woul ...

Resource - edmondragon - 5 Aug 2014 - 15:15 - 0 comments

Tell Your Students: You Can Find True Love With Algorithms and Big Data

In this Wired article , we learn the story of mathematician Chris McKinlay who hacked OKCupid, an online dating site, to find the girl of his dreams while working on his doctoral dissertation on large-scale data processing. McKinlay’s romantic life wa ...

Blog Post - Lauren Amos - 11 Mar 2015 - 11:21 - 1 comment

EarSketch teacher professional development opportunity at Georgia Tech June 23 - 27th, 2014

The Institute for Computing Education (ICE) is pleased to announce that we are hosting a Computer Science Principles workshop at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia using EarSketch June 23-27, 2014.    EarSketch is an integrated Python API, coding and ...

Event - ericsonga - 5 Feb 2014 - 11:36 - 3 comments - 1 group

Request for teachers to be part of a study using an on-line book to learn Python

  We are a research group at Georgia Tech developing new approaches to teaching computer science at a distance.  In collaboration with researchers at Luther College, we have created a new kind of electronic book for learning Python. The book is entir ...

Resource - ericsonga - 23 Oct 2013 - 14:26 - 0 comments

Chicago CS4HS 2013 Workshop

CS4HS is a yearly CS workshop to energize Chicago-area CS teachers. This year we will explore the Raspberry Pi, a credit-card sized $35 computer.  For more information see http://bit.ly/cs4hs2013 , which includes a link to register as well as ...

Event - reed - 11 Jul 2013 - 18:56 - 1 comment - 1 group

CS Princples programming

This workshop will begin to prepare teachers to teach the programming part of the new Computer Science Principles (CSP) course using MIT's App Inventor and Python. This workshop will also introduce you to Media Computation in Python.  See   http: ...

Event - ericsonga - 10 Jun 2013 - 15:38 - 0 comments - 2 groups

CS Princples programming

This workshop will begin to prepare teachers to teach the programming part of the new Computer Science Principles (CSP) course using MIT's App Inventor and Python. This workshop will also introduce you to Media Computation in Python.  See   http: ...

Event - ericsonga - 10 Jun 2013 - 15:38 - 0 comments - 2 groups

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