Impacts: What we'll learn and how

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Teaching Impacts of Technology: Relationships

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University of California San Diego

Teaching Impacts of Technology: Relationships

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Course 3 of 6 in the Specialization Teaching Impacts of Technology in K-12 Education

In this course you’ll focus on how “smart” devices have changed how we interact with others in personal ways, impacting how we stay connected in our increasingly mobile society. This will be done through a series of paired teaching sections, exploring a specific “Impact of Computing” in your typical day and the “Technologies and Computing Concepts” that enable that impact, all at a K12-appropriate level. This course is part of a larger Specialization through which you’ll learn impacts of computing concepts you need to know, organized into 5 distinct digital “worlds”, as well as learn pedagogical techniques and evaluate lesson plans and resources to utilize in your classroom. By the end, you’ll be prepared to teach pre-college learners to be both savvy and effective participants in their digital world. In this particular digital world (relationships), you’ll explore the following Impacts & Technology pairs -- Impacts (Keep me connected in a mobile society):, personal relationships, facebook, circle of friends Technology and Computing Concepts: algorithms, software engineering evolution, heuristics, computer runtime, big O notation, P vs NP Impacts (Making geography-based connections): findings friends, maps, geolocation Technology and Computing Concepts: data and binary, image encoding, pixels, how color pickers work, filters, blurs In the pedagogy section for this course, in which best practices for teaching computing concepts are explored, you’ll learn about the current CSTA K-12 CS Standards and practice using them to review and apply to lesson plans, as well as how to apply the ICAP framework to connect your students’ engagement to active learning outcomes, such as through peer instruction. In terms of CSTA K-12 computer science standards, we’ll primarily cover learning objectives within the “impacts of computing” concept, while also including some within the “networks and the Internet” concepts and the “data and analysis” concept. Practices we cover include “fostering and inclusive computing culture”, “recognizing and defining computational problems”, and “communicating about computing”.

From the lesson

Impacts of Computing and Supporting Interactive Learning

This week we'll introduce the Computer Science K-12 Framework and the Computer Science Teachers Association K-12 Computer Science Standards which are starting to frame state K-12 Computer Science standards in the US. We'll guide you in finding and developing a lesson plan for a particular grade band around a resource for learning about the impact of technology on culture. Next we'll learn a bit about further differentiating and defining "active learning" using the ICAP (interactive, constructive, active, passive) learning framework and see how Peer Instruction can be used to scaffold interactive learning experiences.

What makes "good" active learning?5:45

The ICAP Framework10:28

Scaffolding Interactivity Example: Peer Instruction16:09

Peer Instruction for Impacts of Computing Lessons5:32

Check Your Knowledge0:02

Impacts: What we'll learn and how4:51

Meet the Instructors

Beth Simon
Associate Teaching Professor
Education Studies

So, we've been doing

a little bit of learning about what we might be teaching

students from impacts of computing in various classrooms.

So, I wanted to give you a chance to think,

have experience teaching perhaps or at least experienced teachers?

How do you think that the life of a computer science teacher

might be a little bit different than teachers of other subjects?

Okay, I don't want to make it sound like computer science teachers are better,

but I will say that I think one of the real hallmarks

of teaching computer science is that it's always changing,

and that whatever we talk about today,

about say what some of the most influential impacts of computing are in our society,

these aren't going to be the same things

that we're going to be talking about five years from now.

So, well that is just really to say the following,

that nobody likes stale content,

and one of the key skills that I think computer science teachers are going

to have forever is that they're going to need to

be able to find and develop

new resources especially on teaching about impacts of computing

in order to have up to date

and interesting materials to cover with students in their class.

Now, we could say that sounds like a lot of work,

but you could also say that sounds interesting.

So, what our job is in the notes

this week and then we're really going to dive into it next week,

is we want to give you the excuse of being this class to give you some practice,

taking off the training wheels on building

computer science lesson plans here and to give you

some feedback to help you hone in and develop your skills in

creating resources and lesson plans for teaching impacts of computing.

We all know practice makes perfect,

so again, we're just giving you the excuse to practice.

So, here is the overview of this week.

We are going to have two different sections,

we're going to learn a little bit and then apply that in a do and then another line.

So, let me overview that.

The first thing we'll do is,

even though we've mentioned that before,

we're going to use this as an opportunity to dive even deeper into

the Computer Science Teachers Association standards around impacts of computing,

and let you have some time to really look at them,

go more in-depth maybe on the ones in particular grade levels that you are interested in.

Then, we'll engage you in a do activity where you're going

to pick one of those standards that you are interested in teaching,

and go out and find some resources that you could

use and engage students with in order to address that standard,

maybe those would be readings on the web,

readings of various things,

maybe there will be YouTube videos,

maybe they'll be TEDx.

By the way, TEDx is a great place to find stuff about impacts of computing.

Okay, so again, we'll give you the excuse to go out there and

look for a resource you might be able to use to teach that standard,

and then we'll just have to do just a draft, a first draft,

rough draft of a lesson plan around that for your class.

Then we're going to get into another launch.

I know that we all know about active learning and the value behind that,

but I'm actually going to share with you some really recent research just in,

I think around 2014 from Miche Chi at Arizona State University,

where she provides a much more detailed and scaffold the description

of different levels of active learning that we can have.

In particular, you're going to hear about her definition of interactive learning,

where students either in collaboration with each other or you or

another resource are inter-actively building their knowledge.

Then, I just want to preview what's coming up next week,

because next week is all about applying

those to give you two new lesson plans that you can use,

one will be an improved version of the lesson plan outline that you create this week,

and the other will be giving you a lesson plan provided by somebody

else and how you improve it by adding more interactivity to it.

I know as teachers,

you are well versed in understanding of the value of

pure review and looking at the materials and giving feedback on each other,

but let me just say that the next couple of pure reviews this week

and next are extra important and a really

great opportunity for you to leverage

this community of like-minded educators that you're with,

to really learn and get some feedback from other people,

maybe with different experiences than you,

and to take that time to give

really thoughtful feedback to the people that you are reviewing,

because we are going to have a chance to iterate on this lesson plan.

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