Tuesday, June 21
ERF Room 1043
Welcome / Overview
9:00 Registration, Coffee & snacks
9:30 Welcome: Introduction of Gail Chapman (UCLA), Logistics
9:50 Agenda Information, Background of ECS
ECS Materials
10:00 Distribute binders, Table of contents, Prerequisites
Overview of Instructional Materials
Unifying Themes and Practices, Scope and Sequence
Overview Chart
Topic Descriptions and Objectives
Instructional Philosophy of ECS
10:15 Instructional Philosophy of ECS
5 E's Instructional Philosophy (Inquiry-Based learning Cycle)
Instructional Strategies
Unit 1: Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Overview
11:00 Journal Entry - How many computers?
11:20 Overview of Unit 1 Days 3-14
11:45 Group Activities (5 per group)
Lunch (working lunch)
12:00 Stuck in the Shall End: Issues of Equity and Access
Human Computer Interaction Activities
1:00 Work on Group Activities
1:45 Group Presentations and Debriefs
Debrief Unit 1
3:15 Final thoughts on unit 1, Assignment for day 2
2:25 Daily Online Evaluation (5 minutes)
3:30 Adjourn
A resource used in the curriculum is CS Unplugged. (See also a local copy).
See also the Unit 5 data files (23MB zip file) used with the ECS curriculum.
Homework: Read the Resnick article on Programming using Scratch
Wednesday, June 22
ERF Room 1043
Welcome
9:00 Coffee & snacks
9:30 Daily Overview
Unit 2: Problem Solving Overview
9:45 Pose Final Project: Highway Roads, Skills needed
Data (Days 1-2)
Problem Solving Activities
10:00 Group Presentations and debriefing
Handshake and Fencepost (Days 2-4)
CS Unplugged Binary (Days 10-12)
Tower Building (Days 13-14)
Lunch (working lunch)
12:00 Culturally situated design tools
CACM Scratch article
Problem Solving Activities
1:00 Group presentations and debriefing
CS Unplugged Sorting (Days 15-16)
Tree (Day 17)
Final Project - Highway Roads
2:30 Description of final project, connection to Data (Days 1-2, Tree in Day 17)
Wrap-up, Evaluations
3:00 Wrap-up, Evaluations
2:25 Daily Online Evaluation (5 minutes)
3:30 Adjourn
Thursday, June 23
CS Computer Lab, SEL Room 2260
Welcome
9:00 Coffee & snacks
9:30 Daily Overview
Introduction of Dave Wolber, UCSF
App Inventor: Getting Started
9:45 Configuration, Typical installation issues;
Helpful App Inventor Resources
10:15 A first application: Hello Purr, Soundboard App
11:15 Building a quiz App
Lunch (working lunch)
12:00 Note-taking App, Database, User-generated data
App Inventor: Advanced Applications
1:00 ...continuing on with Note-taking App
LifeSavers
2:00 Curriculum, Assignments and Technology that makes a difference. This is a collaborative effort.
Please post your ideas at:
No login is required. Just click and type.
For the sake of our discussion, let's try to use Google Moderator
(which is a link to bit.ly/cslifesavers2011 )
Wrap-up, Evaluations
3:00 Wrap-up,
3:20 Final online evaluation (7-10 minutes)
3:30 Adjourn
Links: