"The CISE (Computer & Information Science & Engineering) Directorate of the National Science Foundation (NSF) proposes to catalyze a clean-slate revamp of high school computing education through the new CS/10K Project. The goal of the CS/10K Project is to develop an effective high school curriculum that will be taught by 10,000 well-prepared teachers in 10,000 high schools by 2015...
"The new curriculum will feature two courses: an introductory course, followed by an entirely redesigned AP CS course...
"Teachers will have access to a curricular framework, instructional materials, and a set of exemplars. One of those exemplars is the new Exploring Computer Science (ECS) course, developed with NSF funding under the direction of Jane Margolis, Todd Ullah, Joanna Goode, and Gail Chapman. ECS is currently taught in 20 schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District, and it has just been granted both College Preparatory (“G”) and CTE credit status in California. The complete curriculum is available on the CSTA website at csta.acm.org/ Curriculum/sub/ExploringCS.html...
This is a very interesting effort. Learn more!
UC Berkeley has been working on this effort as well, including their new course, CS10 : The Beauty and Joy of Computing. Details on it this semester are at:
ReplyDeletehttp://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs10/sp11/