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

圣菲研究所（SFI）与新墨西哥大学、超级计算挑战组织、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“新墨西哥全民计算机科学”（NM-CSforAll）的项目。NM-CSforAll吗?s的主要目标是初中和高中的STEM教师，帮助他们成为未来的CS教师。它提供了一种新颖的跨学科方法，使用建模和仿真作为教学CS原理的基础，这是一门新的高级预修（AP） CS课程。教师首先将CS原理的建模和仿真版本作为双学分课程实施给学生。在春季学期的课程中，老师们调查现实世界的问题，通过复杂系统（SFI的主要研究领域）的视角来看待它们，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面对面进行。夏季研讨会的重点是回顾CS课程的内容，学习教学法和招聘技巧，为秋季学期在学校的实施做准备。秋季实施的高中双学分CS原理课程使用为教师专业发展课程开发的视频作为讲座材料，并由参与的教师作为学习教练领导每周的“实验室”会议。（NM现在要求双学分，AP或荣誉课程为高中毕业，这门课程将满足要求。）NM CSforAll的第二策略是通过专业在线社区的参与，促进教师的计算机科学内容学习、计算机科学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、工作会议文件上传，以及为教师提供相互学习机会的社交网络功能。STEM教育工作者、CS专业人士和教育研究人员相互交流。作为网站内容的共同创造者，教师参与者将拥有共享的权威，这是创造有利于构建CS教学知识的环境的关键因素。项目评估将决定教师在计算机科学领域的专业发展（整合了复杂系统的计算建模和分析）是否能够培养未来计算机科学教师的能力，以及共同创建和使用在线专业发展网络是否能够提高教师的教学技能并保持他们对计算机科学的兴趣。

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.