CS Discoveries Unit 4 

Training Resources

• Agenda

• Slides

• Evaluation Survey

• CS Discoveries Unit 4 Overview

Lesson 9 Market Research 

• Code.org Public Gallery

• Mobile app classes or competitions like:

  • Apps for Good

  • Technovation

  • Verizon App Challenge

• Mobile app stores like Apple App Store or Google Play

• General web search using Google or Bing

  • Try phrases like “app competition” or “apps for social good”

  • Include your state name for local ideas or competitions

Lesson 10 Paper Prototypes

• Tablet Paper Prototype (11 x 17)

• fluidui.com

• lucid chart

Lesson 16 Links

• CS Discoveries Unit 4 Presentation Template 

• Example Presentation from Code.org

• Example Presentations from SFUSD

Lessons 2, 8-9

• Develop more diverse user profiles

• Break down suggested topics to focused topics

  • Provide subtopics to narrow student focus

• Change "team name" to "app name" (on handout)

• Assign students user profiles (to design apps for)

• Market Research: provide students a list of apps by topics

Lessons 10-11

• Specific protocol for giving feedback (student-to-student)

  • Provide Sentence frames for feedback

  • make feedback anonymous

• Present Paper Prototypes more like a storyboard

Lessons 12-13

• Better Overview/Instructions for students eg

  • Design Recycling Screen

  • Design Your Screen

  • Share

  • Link Screens Together

• Limit functionality to screen changes/button clicks

• Code needs to be taught as if students are starting from 0

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