How can we teach computer science in our classrooms?

• Code.org activities across different subject areas

• CS4AllKIDS - Resources for teaching K-8 CS

• Share, make sure ADMINS, teachers, and students know that CS is more than just coding and technology.

• Make CS available, engaging, reasonable, and just as relevant as any other subject in school.

• ISTE Standards

• Resources and devices to support CS:

Code.org, Ozobots, Osmo, Snap Circuits, Little Bits, MakeyMakey, Kano, Lego Robotics, Minecraft, Hummingbird Robotics, Scratch/Jr/PBS, Bloxels/Floors

 

Support

teacherblog.code.org

forum.code.org

 

 

 

Jobs we may not know of

• NASA Curiosity Driver (Mars Rover)

• Music Industry - Music Data Journalist

• ESPN Statistician

• Shapeways 3D Printing Materials Manager

• Professional Hacker… the ethical kind :)

• Legoland Designer - You too can be a master builder! :) http://mashable.com/2013/02/05/10-awesome-stem-jobs/#8VyfNpxa8Gqy

You can even consider a career as a…

• Food Chemist (making foods safer, cleaner, tastier, etc.)

• Storm Tracker

• Robotics Engineer

Just about any interest you have can be tied to computer science!

 

Fun Facts

• Only 8% of the world’s currency is physical money, the rest only exists on computers.

• John Lasseter (CEO of Pixar) was fired from Disney for promoting computer animation

• Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh computer.

• The world’s first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.

• The first actual computer “bug” was a dead moth which was stuck in a Harvard Mark II computer in 1947.

• Over 5000 (or 6000) new computer viruses are released every month.

• Every minute, 10 hours of videos are uploaded to YouTube

• 95% of mail is now sorted by computers, the U.S. Postal Service still employs clerks to decipher addresses that are too messy for the computers to understand.

• The first computer programmer was a woman In 1843, Ada Lovelace, a British mathematician, published an English translation of an Analytical Engine article written by Luigi Menabrea, an Italian engineer.