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 * Notes**

Tech integration vs CS courses
 * Notes by Virginia Avetisian vavetisian@schechterwestchester.org**

What is being taught/how?
 * Friends Seminary - all 9th graders take one semester of CS, teaching Processing. Exposure allows greater utilization in academic courses.
 * Snap, web design, HTML, CSS, digital photography
 * Scott Wickham ( http://scottwickham.com/) website to teach students to code.
 * Cathedral: K-6 coding once a month every trimester, progressively more complex, elective offered for high school.

How are we getting teachers on board?
 * Challenge: computer skills lacking among students.
 * Why aren't teachers teaching computer skills? (e.g. teach PowerPoint if you assign PPT).
 * Bring teachers to maker spaces to learn about CS / see things in action, CSNYC meet-ups, etc.
 * Teachers learn technology tool so they can do it next year (ideal). Do a project a couple of times to help teachers retain skills.
 * Administration directing it. Qualification for new teachers - must know basic technology.
 * Exceptions for teachers to know specific skills - integrate technology into faculty work.
 * ex. Teachers present using Google pages; tech skill is integrated part of their work.

Why are we teaching each tool - because it's the hot buzzword or because it's useful?
 * PowerPoint vs Ted talk (based on one slide).
 * Not important to teach a specific tool.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">What are we teaching - PPT or how to give a presentation, because tools will change.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Reframe projects as purposeful - this works well in academic classes.

<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Strategies: > Scratch is excellent for integration and for presentations.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Liz Arum (St. Ann's): teaches to LS students Scratch -> JavaScript -> Processing -> then Python.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Don't get stuck on block based code.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Internationally, students learn text-based coding languages and project-based coding staring in 2nd grade.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Processing: Java-based ide but very graphical immediately.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Snap - web-based, can be used on iPads.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Start students off with a seminar, then they have the skills to take into their academic classes. Now every student has a foundation - they can take more advanced electives, or be able to integrate CS into academic projects.

<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">New AP: Beauty and Joy of Computing - diluted, but, is it appealing to a larger audience? Teaches digital citizenship, how technology affects the world. Is it an AP?

Tony - Sacred Heart - Tech integrator, etc, CS Erin - Friends - US Integrator Karen - robotics and programming at Sacred heart - The School - integratio Alex - US tech integrator - Churchill School Virginia - Solomon schecter Nisha - Cathedral school
 * Notes by Evan Wels ewels@spenceschool.org:**
 * Nightingale - established a required 10th grade programming class
 * Friends - 9th grade - 1 semester, Processing
 * from there, electives and AP CS
 * coding in science, music, math
 * teaching what we want to teach but using coding
 * programming through snap; web design (HTML/CSS), partnered with Graphic Design
 * Used to be a Social Studies teacher
 * scott wickham’s student coding - math teacher
 * CS 6-8 grade
 * lego robotics
 * wanted to integrate coding into MS classes, teaching separate classes instead
 * basic skills are missing

Browning School's amazing CS and Tech curriculum matrix via Jeremy Sambuca: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GbAtWIKsE_qMNcMxE85R7WolSZhK-e8Q2KQHT9ya1bA

Karen: Music elective with maker-y stuff; beam center in red hook; arduino, sound sensor; maker spaces; CSnyc meetups; EDcamp NYC;

Virginia - Teachers themselves don’t know the tech; and are therefore unwilling to use it in class

Glenn (Allen Stevenson) - Integrator can push in, but the teachers must be the ones to learn it.

TinkerCAD/Prezi - Terms of service

Dylan (The School at Columbia)

Death By Powerpoint - video Robert Gates book

If you assign a project, you need to teach kids how to use it.

scottwickham.com

Karen Are we teaching Coding or a tool to solve problems CS for all

Engineering Challenges

Liz Arum at St. Anne’s - grades 5-6 Don’t get stuck on block coding -- get them to text

Nisha - 2nd grade coding in India - functions, loops

Erin (Friends) the new AP CS course - [|__https://advancesinap.collegeboard.org/stem/computer-science-principles__] processing - OO - [|__https://processing.org__] game design (processing) elective Game Design (1 semester half credit - 2 x 70 min in 8 days)
 * flipped
 * half the class is play testing
 * Book: Ready Player 1

Beauty and Joy of Computing [|__http://bjc.berkeley.edu__]

AP CS-A - intro to java - boring

Berkeley - Snap; MIT - Scratch

Nisha - Water cycle - Scratch project in 3rd grade

Virginia - Hummingbird kits [|__http://www.hummingbirdkit.com__]

Dylan Computer Science https://csta.acm.org/Curriculum/sub/K12Standards.html standards - who is going to be teaching it??? Who teaches it -- subject teachers! using star logo