This is a follow-up PD from last summer's Exploring Computer Science (ECS) curriculum training. You do not need to have been at the October PD to attend this one. This session is sponsored by Lucia Dettori at DePaul and the NSF CE21 grant working to replicate ECS here in Chicago.
We are privileged to once again have Gail Chapman in from San Diego to do this training for us!
Register online by January 25
When: Saturday, January 28, 9:30am -3:30pm (registration/breakfast starts at 9)
Where: DePaul’s College of Computing and Digital Media
Room 924
243 South Wabash Ave
Chicago, IL 606004
This is at the NE corner of Wabash and Jackson in the Loop. See map
Please DO bring a laptop if you have one available. Before coming download and install Scratch from scratch.mit.edu, or come early to do it on the morning of the event. Lunch will be provided.
9:00 - 9:30 Breakfast, Catching up
9:30 - 9:45 Welcome, Introductions (Lucia, Dale)
9:45 - 10:00 Overview, describe first activity (Gail)
10:00 - 10:50 Pairs working on Scratch activity (Gail & Team)
10:50 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:30 Gallery walk and debrief (Dale & Team)
11:30 - 12:30 Group planning of lessons (Gail & Team)
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch. [Pilot teachers meet for 30 min.]
1:30 - 2:40 Lessons and Debriefs (Dale &Team)
2:40 - 3:15 Summaries from remaining groups and debrief (Dale & Team)
3:15 - 3:30 Closing Thoughts and Evaluations (Lucia & Dale) Photo Release Form,
The "days" below refer to the Exploring Computer Science (ECS) curriculum Scratch chapter days. (See the ECS curriculum link below.) Activities we covered:
In pairs (with group members alternating between "driving" and "navigating") ECS days 1-5:
Name Project: name.sb Scratch sample, ECS curriculum rubric p. 140
Baseball Project: moving.sb and baseball.sb Scratch samples. Complete #10 and #11 on p. 146
We then broke into groups, where the 5 groups worked on:
Event Driven: Days 7-8
Broadcast and Scratch Story: Days 9-13
Variables: Day 14
And, Or, Random: Days 16-17
Conditionals: Day 18
We only had time for presentations from 2 of the groups, with recap from the other 3 groups.
Other Content
Scratch Teaching Tips document, that you can edit!
Content and Teaching Strategies (from Summer ECS training)
This page available at bit.ly/ScratchPD128