CS 10K: New Mexico Computer Science for All (NM CSforAll)

CS 10K：新墨西哥州全民计算机科学 (NM CSforAll)

• 批准号: 1240992
• 负责人: Melanie Moses
• 金额: $ 99.83万
• 依托单位: Santa Fe Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-11-01 至 2017-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1240992&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CS; 10K; New; Mexico; Computer

The Santa Fe Institute (SFI), in partnership with the University of New Mexico, the Supercomputing Challenge, and other educational organizations, industry partners, and local schools, proposes a project called New Mexico Computer Science for All (NM-CSforAll). NM-CSforAll?s primary targets middle and high school STEM teachers, preparing them to be future CS teachers. It offers a novel, interdisciplinary approach that uses modeling and simulation as the basis for teaching CS Principles, the proposed, new Advanced Placement (AP) CS course. Teachers first take the modeling and simulation version of CS Principles and then implement it as a dual credit course for their students. During a Spring semester-long course, the teachers investigate real-world problems, view them through the lens of complex systems--SFI's primary research area--and then model and analyze them using agent-based modeling techniques. The project uses a "flipped" classroom methodology, meaning the lecture portion of the course will be offered as online videos, while the exercise and project work will take place in the lab, face-to-face. A Summer workshop focuses on reviewing the CS content of the course, learning pedagogy, and recruitment techniques in preparation for the Fall semester implementation in the schools. The Fall implementation of the dual credit CS Principles class for high school students uses the videos developed for the teacher professional development course as lecture material and weekly "lab" session meetings led by participating teachers acting as learning coaches. (NM now requires a dual-credit, AP, or honors course for high school graduation and this course will fulfill the requirement.) NM CSforAll's secondary strategy fosters teachers' CS content learning, CS teaching pedagogy, and computer programming practice through engagement in a professional online community. NM-CSforAll's online network will include video sharing, uploading of documentation of work sessions, and social networking capabilities providing opportunities for teachers to learn from each other?s implementations of CS activities and communicate with each other, STEM educators, CS professionals and educational researchers. Teacher participants, as the co-creators of content for the site, will have shared authority, a critical factor in creating environments conducive to building knowledge about teaching and learning CS. The project evaluation will determine whether teacher professional development in CS that integrates computational modeling and analysis of complex systems, builds capacity in future CS teachers, and whether co-creation and use of an online professional development network can improve teachers' pedagogical skills and sustain their interest in CS.

圣达菲研究所(SFI)与新墨西哥大学、超级计算挑战赛以及其他教育组织、行业合作伙伴和当地学校合作，提出了一个名为新墨西哥州全民计算机科学(NM-CSforAll)的项目。S小学的目标是初中和高中的STEM教师，为他们未来的CS教师做准备。它提供了一种新颖的跨学科方法，使用建模和模拟作为教授CS原理的基础，这是拟议中的新的高级选修课程(AP)CS课程。教师首先采用CS原理的建模和模拟版本，然后将其作为学生的双学分课程实施。在春季为期一学期的课程中，老师们调查现实世界的问题，通过复杂系统的镜头来看待它们--SFI的主要研究领域--然后使用基于代理的建模技术对它们进行建模和分析。该项目采用“翻转”课堂教学方法，这意味着课程的授课部分将以在线视频的形式提供，而练习和项目工作将在实验室中面对面进行。暑期工作坊的重点是回顾课程的CS内容、学习教学法和招聘技巧，为秋季学期在学校实施做准备。秋季实施的高中生双学分CS原则课程，使用为教师专业发展课程制作的视频作为授课材料，并由参与教师担任学习教练领导每周的实验室会议。(NM现在高中毕业需要双学分、AP或荣誉课程，这门课程将满足这一要求。)NM CSforAll的次要策略通过参与专业的在线社区，促进教师的CS内容学习、CS教学方法和计算机编程实践。NM-CSforAll的在线网络将包括视频共享、上传工作会议记录和社交网络功能，为教师提供相互学习和交流的机会？S实施CS活动，并与STEM教育工作者、CS专业人员和教育研究人员进行交流。作为网站内容的共同创建者，教师参与者将拥有共享的权力，这是创造有利于建立关于教与学CS知识的环境的关键因素。项目评估将决定教师在计算机模拟和复杂系统分析方面的专业发展能否培养未来计算机专业教师的能力，以及共同创建和使用在线专业发展网络是否可以提高教师的教学技能和保持他们对计算机专业发展的兴趣。