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AP CS: Principles

AP CS: Principles. Dr. Kelly Schultz Academically Talented Youth Program Western Michigan University. Dr. Kelly Schultz . Adjunct teacher at Kalamazoo College teaching Computer Science – 17 years

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AP CS: Principles

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  1. AP CS: Principles Dr. Kelly Schultz Academically Talented Youth Program Western Michigan University

  2. Dr. Kelly Schultz • Adjunct teacher at Kalamazoo College teaching Computer Science – 17 years • Teach AP Computer Science at WMU to gifted middle school and high school students – 4 years and counting • AP Reader (3 years) and Table Leader (1 year) for AP CS A exam. • ACSL team coach – 1 year and counting

  3. What do you teach to your students that is not programming? • Binary Numbers

  4. What do you wish you had time to teach them? • Robots

  5. Advanced Placement Computer Science • CS A exam – no changes planned • CS: Principles course • Csprinciples.org • ACM special issue

  6. Computational Thinking Practices:Connecting Computing

  7. Computational Thinking Practices:Developing computational artifacts

  8. Computational Thinking Practices: Abstraction

  9. Computational Thinking Practices: Analyzing problems and artifacts

  10. Computational Thinking Practices: Communicating

  11. Big Idea #1 • Computing is a creative activity • Python – Digital imaging or sound manipulation • Web Page Design • Storytelling • Game Design

  12. Big Idea #2 • Abstraction reduces information and detail to facilitate focus on relevant concepts • Lightbot – games to help with data abstraction • BYOB – concepts are easily implemented without frustration of traditional programming • Units on computer hardware and logic

  13. Big Idea #3 • Data and information facilitate the creation of knowledge • Work with large amounts of data to analyze and come to conclusions • Bioinformatics – DNA Sequencing • Social Networking

  14. Big Idea #4 • Algorithms are used to develop and express solutions to computational problems • Game Theory • Searching/Sorting • Cloud Computing • Cryptography

  15. Big Idea #5 • Programming enables problem solving, human expression, and creation of knowledge • Program creation in multiple arenas • BYOB/Scratch • Alice • Javascript • Android Phone Apps • Greenfoot

  16. Big Idea #6 • The Internet pervades modern computing • HTML and WWW • Social Networks • Apps • Who is Tim Berners-Lee?

  17. Big Idea #7 • Computing has global impacts • Social implications of computing • Gaps in computing • Applications that changed the world • Security • Program Correctness/Bugs • Computing Ethics

  18. Timeline • First possible exam is May 2017 • First and Second Pilots are done • More than 80 colleges/universities have attested they would give credit for such a test • Kalamazoo College and Lawrence Technology University are two in Michigan

  19. Commonalities in courses • Blown to Bits used as a text - http://www.bitsbook.com/excerpts/ • Easy to use programming environment – Greenfoot, Alice, Android phone apps, Lightbot, Scratch, BYOB, Javascript • Focus on real life applications and high interest units

  20. Kalamazoo College – Introduction to Computer Science Course • What is Computer Science? • Introduction to Programming in Javascript • History of Computer Science • How Computers Represent Information • Computer Hardware and Logic • What can computers do? What can’t computers do? • Artificial Intelligence • Computer Ethics & Computer Security www.cs.kzoo.edu/cs105/

  21. Flip the classroom • Key to keeping the students engaged is to require the reading to be done outside of class • Use labs and student presentations to involve the students in learning • Learn by doing not by listening!

  22. Questions? Kelly.schultz@wmich.edu

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