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Institute for Computing Education (ICE) at Georgia Tech

Institute for Computing Education (ICE) at Georgia Tech. Fall 2004 BIT Conference. ICE Goals. Train more CS-AP teachers Start by training teachers for the Prog and Sys Management course even with no experience When ready train for CS-AP course

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Institute for Computing Education (ICE) at Georgia Tech

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  1. Institute for Computing Education (ICE)at Georgia Tech Fall 2004 BIT Conference

  2. ICE Goals • Train more CS-AP teachers • Start by training teachers for the Prog and Sys Management course • even with no experience • When ready train for CS-AP course • Increase the number and diversity of CS students • Interesting curriculum • Help with recruiting

  3. Why? • The U.S. Department of Labor predicts that despite the recent decline in the IT industry, computer software engineers and computer systems designers will be among the fastest growing occupations in 2002-2012 • The percentage of women has been declining • High of about 30% to about 12% now

  4. Summer 2004 • 1 week AP workshop • 17 teachers attended • 2 week Programming and Systems Management Workshop • 30 teachers attended • Both workshops were residential • Georgia Tech Hotel • Most teachers received laptops

  5. Prog and Sys Workshop Content • Media Computation • Manipulate Pictures and Sounds • 2d Drawing • Animation • Demos of current research • Robot dogs, aging in place • Talk on diversity • Student panel discussion

  6. Workshop CS Content • Introduction to object-oriented concepts • Keywords and operators • Primitive and object variables • Class and object methods • Arrays • Iteration (for and while loops) • Conditionals (if, if-else, if-else-if, and, or) • Graphical User Interfaces • Input/Output and Exceptions • Debugging

  7. Goals for Content • Motivating • For students and teachers • Creative • Open-ended assignments • Authentic tasks • Start with what students use computers for (pictures, sounds, text, web, games)

  8. Negate an Image

  9. Mirroring

  10. Rotation

  11. Create a Collage

  12. Remove ‘Red Eye’

  13. Sepia-Tint

  14. Chromakey

  15. Prog and Sys Results • Survey results • 70.37% of teachers felt more capable • 96.30% got ideas on what to teach • 88.89% got ideas on how to teach • 44.44% felt ready to teach in fall • Teachers with no experience wanted a slower pace • Some of the teachers are using the content

  16. Quotes • I didn’t want to take this workshop. I thought it would be boring and too math-based, but I am having fun. • My kids won’t believe that I am programming for fun. • This was the best (non-college credit) workshop I have ever taken. • The demos were awesome. I wish I had thought ahead & had a video camera to record demos.

  17. Resources • Collaborative Website • http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/ice-gt • Mailing list • gacs-teachers-psm@cc.gatech.edu • Gacs-teachers-ap@cc.gatech.edu • Field trips • Contact Kristin Vadas • vadas@cc.gatech.edu • Summer camps for students • Contact Kris Nagel • kris@cc.gatech.edu

  18. Summer 2005 Workshops • 2 week Prog and Sys for beginners June 13-16 and 20-23 • 1 week Prog and Sys for intermediate June 27-30 • 2 week Prepare for AP July 11-14 and 18-21 • 1 week Intermediate AP July 25-28

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