1. Students reflect on their work throughout the unit and make connections to potential career paths of interest
through personal reflections and exposure to other models of success in CS.
2. Students connect their collaboration experience to the skills needed to be employed in a digital technology career.
In this section students will continue to watch other videos of Georgia Tech students in CS and learn about some of the areas they are working on within the field of computer science. Students will also have the opportunity to hear from these students what are some things they have struggled with in their learning paths. We recommend using a Think-Pair-Share process for the video discussion, so different students have enough time to think and possibly make personal connections to these stories before sharing. Teachers are also encouraged to promote a rich discussion that includes not only aspects of those stories that they might find inspiring or motivating, but also aspects of the stories they also find relatable in terms of struggles.
Also, in this section students will be able to reflect on their progress throughout unit 3, complete the Unit 3 portfolio organizer and use that information to update their html resume.
Activity 1 (120 minutes)
Meet a Georgia Tech computer science student!
Teachers will tell the students they will have a second opportunity to learn more about the work some CS students are doing at GT. Students will watch 2 short video interviews of Georgia Tech computer science students. We suggest the teachers have the student watch a single video and pick one of the possible discussion questions suggested below, and facilitate a Think-Pair-Share (T-P-S) activity. As part of this activity, teachers can have the students record individually their thoughts in writing, then pair with another student to share their views, and lastly share with the entire class in a whole group discussion. The the students can watch the second video and the teachers can facilitate another T-P-S activity using any the following prompts (please see note about discussion in the section summary):
1. For you, what was the most compelling or interesting thing about any of these students' stories? Why?
2. Did anything these students said resonated with you personally?
3. Did you learn anything new or surprising about computer science as a field?
4. Did you learn anything interested about careers or things you could do with a computer science background?
Students complete their IDT Portfolio Organizer for Unit 2.
Students will complete their IDT Portfolio Organizer Unit 2 at this time. Teachers will remind students there are no right or wrong answers and that the assignment will not be graded.
Students update their html resume for Unit 2.
Lastly, students can take this time to update their html resumes and add the skills they recognize to have acquired during unit 2 (these are their answers to question 1 in their unit 2 portfolio organizer).