CSTA2013

CSTA 2013 Presentation Resources and Handouts

http://csta.acm.org/ProfessionalDevelopment/sub/CSTAConference.html

1. About CSTEM, Los Altos School District's program that teaches every sixth grader to code

Los Altos School District in Los Altos, San Francisco Bay Area, California offers all 6th graders a weekly CSTEM program. CSTEM teaches Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) subjects through the 3 C’s – Creativity, Collaboration and Computer Science.

Approximately 500 sixth graders across 7 schools attend the weekly program. . More on the CSTEM program

Program highlights

Pair Programming
Focus on design, art, creativity
Extensive use of Edmodo to engage and assign work, post finished projects, comment on posts, ask questions after class, homework/quizzes, class discussions
Student showcase and competition

Article in EdSurge on program: https://www.edsurge.com/n/2013-05-08-when-every-sixth-grader-learns-to-code

2. Introduction to programming through art and math. Use of Processing.js on Khan Academy's CS platform.

Article on this lesson: http://www.computersforcreativity.com/resources/building-with-code

Processing examples http://www.computersforcreativity.com/resources/processing

3. Other Art-Math-programming projects

Use of Processing in the Math class, sample project : https://www.khanacademy.org/cs/areas-and-perimeters/1302354812

Math Games in Scratch lesson plan: http://www.computersforcreativity.com/resources/scratchmathgames

(If you are interested in my 6+ week lesson plan for 'Programming through Art' using Scratch 2.0? Please email me)

4. CS Advocacy

Sample parent newsletter: May 2013 issue

Other articles : http://www.computersforcreativity.com/articles

5. Student Examples