CS 10K: Mobile CSP: Using Mobile Learning to Teach CS Principles in Connecticut Schools

CS 10K：移动 CSP：使用移动学习在康涅狄格州学校教授 CS 原理

• 批准号: 1240841
• 负责人: Ralph Morelli
• 金额: $ 90.27万
• 依托单位: Trinity College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-01-01 至 2018-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1240841&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CS; 10K; Mobile; CSP; Using

Trinity College, in partnership with the Hartford Public School System, the Connecticut Chapter of the Computer Science Teachers Association, and other Hartford area high schools, will train approximately 30 Connecticut high school teachers to teach Advanced Placement (AP) computing courses in Connecticut high schools that currently do not teach AP computer science. The course will be based on a mobile Computer Science Principles curriculum, Mobile CSP, which uses the new mobile computing language, App Inventor for Android, to provide a rigorous, programming-based introduction to computational thinking. The main research question addressed is whether the Mobile CSP curriculum is an effective way to teach CS Principles and whether it can serve as one model to help train teachers for the CS 10K project. The curriculum is project-based and takes a constructionist approach to learning computing -- i.e., students learn through constructing their own artifacts and mental models. Student projects will focus on building socially useful, place-based mobile apps using the App Inventor programming language. In this way, student learning will be associated closely with their interests and grounded in their schools, their homes, and their communities. The curriculum, which was developed and tested at Trinity College and the Greater Hartford Academy of Mathematics and Science (GHAMAS) as one of the Phase 2 pilot courses for the College Board's CS Principles project, will be carefully evaluated along several dimensions, including its efficacy at improving programming and problem solving skills and its impact on student and teacher attitudes toward computer science education. The Mobile CSP project has three main goals: (i) To develop a rigorous computer science principles AP curriculum based on mobile computing; (ii) to teach it to Connecticut teachers in 6-week summer workshops; and (iii) to support participating teachers in their effort to implement the AP pilot courses in Connecticut schools that do not currently teach AP computer science. The 2013-2014 cohort of teachers will be drawn primarily from the Hartford school district, a district whose students come mostly from demographic and socio-economic backgrounds that have been underrepresented in computer science. In years two and three the project will expand to other, similarly situated, Connecticut cities and towns.

三一学院与哈特福德公立学校系统、计算机科学教师协会康涅狄格州分会以及其他哈特福德地区高中合作，将培训大约 30 名康涅狄格州高中教师，在目前不教授 AP 计算机科学的康涅狄格州高中教授大学先修 (AP) 计算机课程。该课程将基于移动计算机科学原理课程 Mobile CSP，该课程使用新的移动计算语言 App Inventor for Android，为计算思维提供严格的、基于编程的介绍。解决的主要研究问题是移动 CSP 课程是否是教授 CS 原理的有效方法，以及它是否可以作为帮助培训 CS 10K 项目教师的模型。该课程以项目为基础，采用建构主义方法来学习计算——即学生通过构建自己的工件和心智模型来学习。学生项目将侧重于使用 App Inventor 编程语言构建对社会有用的、基于地点的移动应用程序。这样，学生的学习将与他们的兴趣密切相关，并扎根于他们的学校、他们的家庭和他们的社区。该课程是在三一学院和大哈特福德数学与科学学院 (GHAMAS) 开发和测试的，作为大学理事会计算机科学原理项目第二阶段试点课程之一，将在多个方面进行仔细评估，包括其在提高编程和解决问题技能方面的功效以及对学生和教师对计算机科学教育态度的影响。移动 CSP 项目有三个主要目标： (i) 开发基于移动计算的严格的计算机科学原理 AP 课程； (ii) 在为期 6 周的夏季讲习班中向康涅狄格州的教师教授该知识； (iii) 支持参与教师在目前不教授 AP 计算机科学的康涅狄格州学校实施 AP 试点课程。 2013-2014学年的教师队伍将主要来自哈特福德学区，该学区的学生大多来自人口和社会经济背景，而这些背景在计算机科学领域的代表性不足。在第二年和第三年，该项目将扩展到康涅狄格州其他类似位置的城镇。