The Computer Science Frontiers (CSF) project introduces teachers to the topics of artificial intelligence and distributed computing to engage their female students in computing by connecting lessons to relevant cuttin...
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(纸本)9781450390712
The Computer Science Frontiers (CSF) project introduces teachers to the topics of artificial intelligence and distributed computing to engage their female students in computing by connecting lessons to relevant cutting edge technologies. Application topics include social media and news articles, as well as climate change, the arts (movies, music, and museum collections), and public health/medicine. CSF educators are prepared in a pedagogy and peer-teaching centered professional development program where they simultaneously learn and teach distributed computing, artificial intelligence, and internet of things lessons to each other. These professional developments allow educators to hone in on their teaching skills of these new topics and gain confidence in their ability to teach new computer science materials before running several activities with their students in the academic year classroom. In this workshop, teachers participating in the CS Frontiers professional development will give testimonials discussing their experiences teaching these topics in a two week summer camp. Attendees will then try out three computing activities, one from each Computer Science Frontiers module. Finally, there will be a question and answer session.
The National Center of Educational Statistics (LACES) documents a troubling downward trend starting in the eighth grade in conceptual reasoning, scientific investigation, and practical reasoning. The data indicate no ...
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(纸本)9781424419692
The National Center of Educational Statistics (LACES) documents a troubling downward trend starting in the eighth grade in conceptual reasoning, scientific investigation, and practical reasoning. The data indicate no improvement in the eighth grade scores and by the time these students reach the 12th grade the data show a downward turn. The downward trend implicates the type of curriculum being taught in the middle school. Middle school students learn how to use reasoning in the abstract, not in the context of real-world problems. Modeling and simulation software is a possible way out of this dilemma by learning about potential implications of today's actions on tomorrow's outcomes. However, programming can present a huge obstacle for middle school teachers who want to integrate model building into their curriculum. To overcome this hurdle we introduced StarLogo, which uses an interface that simplifies programming making it accessible even for novices. StarLogo makes building programs as easy as dragging color-coded puzzle-piece like statements together. The paper reports on a usability study that investigated the effectiveness of the visualprogramming language of StarLogo from two perspectives. Did the visual interface make programming useful for middle school teachers and effective as a teaching platform?
Microsoft robotics studio (MSRS) was publicly released in December 2006 with the explicit goal of providing an industry software standard for robot control. To become a viable standard, several technical challenges ne...
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Microsoft robotics studio (MSRS) was publicly released in December 2006 with the explicit goal of providing an industry software standard for robot control. To become a viable standard, several technical challenges needed to be solved. In this article, we examine the composition of MSRS, looking generally at its architecture and specifically at its solutions for concurrency, distribution, abstraction, simulation, and programmer interaction. We also examine briefly the emerging industry and academic adoption of the robotics studio.
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