CIvics & CS Pathway
Overview: CiViCs and Mobile Apps
Students can develop and use mobile apps to support civics advocacy projects. Mobile apps can be used to gather data and collect information about community issues through surveys and uploaded stories and images. They can also share information, stories, sounds, and images with your community. Click the link to see professional examples of civics apps.
About the Civics Pathway and what CS Pathways civics teachers have to say: tinyurl.com/cs-social-action-csta2023
Students can develop and use mobile apps to support civics advocacy projects. Mobile apps can be used to gather data and collect information about community issues through surveys and uploaded stories and images. They can also share information, stories, sounds, and images with your community. See examples of professional apps here:
Listed below are some functions student's apps can perform that fit with Generation Citizen Action Civics stages. Student apps will reflect the stage of civic action students address and their experience with making apps.
Identify Issues and do research
Collect data, conduct surveys, and collect stories
Help app users report problems, share stories , or give feedback
Plan actions and organize
Set goals and track progress
Set tasks and track progress
Assign responsibilities
Advocate and Engage
Communicate and reach out to community members, policymakers, and stakeholders.
Provide information about an issue
promote events and initiatives,
encourage people to take action through petitions, sign-ups, or event registration.
Inform and Share Resources
Provide educational content, news updates, resources for further research
Links to relevant organizations or initiatives.
Raise awareness and provide users with valuable information.
Reflect and Evaluate:
collect feedback from participants
track the impact of their advocacy efforts,
conduct post-project surveys
OpenAI. (2023, June 2). Chat with OpenAI's ChatGPT on the topic of Generation Citizen [Chat transcript].
Time : __ hours
Computer science will impact students' lives, future careers, and civic participation. Students can use computer science to explore and express their identity and connect to issues, activities, media, and people that are important to them.
CS is a collaborative and social experience that affects us as citizens. Students will learn that they can create mobile apps to express who they are and what they care about using Code.org's App Lab.
Time : ___ hours
In this unit, students can create or modify a simple app to explore and describe possible issues.
By the end of this module, students can make simple apps that identify and describe an issue.
More advanced students can explore using App Lab's built-in data collection functionality by remixing a basic data collecting app.
Careers in Computer Science
Time : ___ hours
How can or will you use your app or apps? Will you collect information? Will you share information? Will you organize people? All of the above?
3 Modules
Time : ___ hours
Students learn and apply design and computer science skills to make apps serve their project needs.
App completion and/or use
Reflection
Time : ___ hours
Stage 5. Taking Action - Getting it all Done - Project management
App completion & showcase
Reflection
Time : ___ hours
Stage 6. REflecting and Showcasing
In this unit, the teachers and students organize an App Fair or other event to share their apps with their communities.
Teachers and students can explore ways to spread their messages and gain support for their messages using apps.
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