Today in Austin, Texas at the TCEA state convention, Bill Dunklau organized a panel to discuss the proposed AP CS Principles course.\u00a0 Bill served as the panel moderator.\u00a0 Teresa Dahlberg, representing NSF, and I served as live panel participants.\u00a0 Several others participated via Skype.<\/p>\n
Bill provided an intro and began the AP CS Principles Pilot awards.\u00a0 Awards were given to the colleges currently piloting courses based on the AP CS Principles framework.\u00a0 Various awards were presented to recognize the different approaches used to deliver these pilot courses.<\/p>\n
Teresa provided an overview of the AP CS Principles course, an explanation of the combined efforts of NSF and the College Board, and the rationale behind the development of the course.\u00a0 Related information can be found at http:\/\/csprinciples.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n Dan Garcia from UC Berkeley spoke about his CS10 : The Beauty and Joy of Computing course.\u00a0 He provided some examples and supporting feedback from some of his students.\u00a0 Scratch BYOB is the main environment used to create projects in this class.\u00a0 Information can be found at\u00a0 http:\/\/inst.eecs.berkeley.edu\/~cs10\/sp11\/<\/a><\/p>\n Teresa provided a bit more information on the NSF role in the project and some slides from Owen Astrachan.\u00a0 Related information can be found at http:\/\/csprinciples.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n I presented some slides from Larry Snyder and gave an overview of the CSE120 University of Washington course.\u00a0 LightBot and Processing are the main environments used to create projects in this course.\u00a0 Information can be found at http:\/\/www.cs.washington.edu\/education\/courses\/cse120\/11wi\/<\/a><\/p>\n We finally were able to get Jody Paul up on the big screen via Skype.\u00a0 Jody spoke about the Living in A Computing World course he teachers at Metropolitan State College of Denver.\u00a0 Scratch and LightBot are the main environments used to create projects in this course.\u00a0 Information can be found at http:\/\/livinginacomputingworld.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n Chris Stephenson wrapped up the panel via Skype.\u00a0 She provided information about the role of CSTA.<\/p>\n Hopefully, the panel discussion provided useful information to all that attended.<\/p>\n Other related Links<\/p>\n LightBot –\u00a0 http:\/\/armorgames.com\/play\/2205\/light-bot<\/a><\/p>\n Scratch BYOB – http:\/\/byob.berkeley.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n