For week of Sept 28

 For next week:

Read Don Tapscott Grown Up Digital excerpt - OR choose one of the business week 8 part series from Don's Articles.

Read one of the articles or reviews of the The Dumbest Generation by Mark Bauerlein.
OR
Listen to an interview on PBS with both Tapscott and Bauerlein (click on the Listen link)

OR TVO with Gary Small and Don Tapscott - click on the Your Brain on Tech tab if necessary

T and T Sept 21/22 2010

T and T Sept 21/22 2010

Lab

A12 - 10:30 - 11:00
A11 - 1:45 - 3:00
Google docs accounts - professional names please!
Create a wiki (PBWorks or Wikispaces) - create, make pages, make pretty, edit sidebar, add video, add users

Class

To get rid of pbworks update emails - login and go to Account - Home and select how often you want to receive email (at the bottom).
Who is R Redekopp?

Important Idea 2 (A15 and 17) - Supervise yourself samples

Take the poll from Polleverywhere.com

Marshall McLuhan (disinfodave on YouTube) - enhance, obsolesce, retrieve, reverse
Clarity
Examples
Discuss McLuhan video and ideas.

• What is the difference between hot and cool media?
• Is a wiki a hot or cool medium?
• What are the four effects of any new medium? Show how this happens with a cell phone.

"Are You Playing Attention?" (A17)

Is Google Making Us Stupid? (Did not do with A11or A15)

• What kinds of reading do you do online?
• Can you do more than skim or are you able to do 'deep reading'?
• “When the Net absorbs a medium, that medium is re-created in the Net’s image.” Yes??? Is our reading always going to be scattered now?

Sample exam question: Are we more connected and more isolated at the same time?

 For next week:

Read Don Tapscott Grown Up Digital excerpt - OR choose one of the business week 8 part series from Don's Articles.

Read one of the articles or reviews of the The Dumbest Generation by Mark Bauerlein.
OR
Listen to an interview on PBS with both Tapscott and Bauerlein (click on the Listen link)

OR TVO with Gary Small and Don Tapscott - click on the Your Brain on Tech tab if necessary

CS Methods Sept 21 2010

Curriculum

CS curriculum - from Man Ed
    - new ideas about GLOs 1 - 3
  - GLO 4 - technology
      - what's typical, what's unusual
     - does the sequence make sense? What alternate sequence could you use?
     - is it just another math course?

Take one of the books and work out how much of it you would use and what order you would do it in. Imagine that you have a class of complete novices.

So - how should we get them started with CS?
What are different ways of getting them used to code?

• Give code with blanks to fill in
• Give code with simple errors
• Use templates that they can adapt - see below

Remember
This is not just another math course!

x we need other examples and graphics and movement and ..........

x CS language skills / social skills / problem solving skills

x different aspects of CS - what should they know?

Jane McGonigal on TED and why we need to game more!
George Dyson on TED on The development of computers

Lab

Shared Google calendar - add your due dates if you haven't already.
Netvibes, google reader or another RRS reader.
Class wiki - request access
Gliffy - try it out

Teaching code

Reading first?

Actionscript Sample

_root.blue1._x = 300;
_root.green1._y = 200;
lose1._visible = false;
blue1.onPress = function() {
    blue1._alpha = 0;
    green1._y = 0;
};
blue1.onRollOver = function() {
    blue1._alpha += 10;
    green1._y += 30;
    if(green1._y >= 320)
    {
        lose1._visible = true;
        green1._visible = 0;
        blue1._visible = false;
    }
   
};




Actionscript Sample 2

_root.blue1._x = 300;
_root.green1._y = 50;
lose1._visible = false;
playAgain1._visible = false;
blue1.onPress = function() {
    blue1._alpha = 0;
    green1._y = 0;
};
blue1.onRollOver = function() {
    blue1._alpha += 10;
    green1._y += 30;
    if (green1._y>=320) {
        lose1._visible = true;
        green1._visible = 0;
        blue1._visible = false;
        playAgain1._visible = true;
    }
};
playAgain1.onRelease = function() {
    _root.blue1._alpha = 100;
    blue1._visible = true;
    _root.green1._y = 50;
    green1._visible = 1;
    lose1._visible = false;
    playAgain1._visible = false;
};

Teacher and Tech Sept 16/17 2010

Class

Important Idea #1

Questions about the assignments
    x start a rubric for assignment 1 at Rubistar
       Other rubric sites - Eastern School District (Nfld), Kathy Schrock, Teach-noloy



(A 11 and A12) Manitoba Education - Curriculum Navigator
    x let’s plan some lessons together

Citation Sites - BibMe, EasyBib, RefWorks (via UofM library site)

Jane McGonigal on TED and why we need to game more!

Lab (for A17 and A15 only)

Donna Masson - Education librarian on doing research



For next week (Sept 21/22) read/watch/listen:


The influence of technology - Marshall McLuhan - McLuhan's Wake - disinfodave on YouTube and form Guitar Solo (go figure)
    x what is the McLuhan tetrad (the four aspects of a technology)?
    x what are hot and cold technologies?
    x how are his predication skills?



Nicolas Carr – Is Google Making Us Stupid?

We can still read! - Why Digital Doesn't Mean Dumb!

What is a good teacher?
Gladwell - How to Identify a Good Teacher Prospect

CS Methods Sept 16 2010

Class

Course Outline and assignments

How many of your students will go on to take CS in university or college?

• - what are the implications of that for teaching your class?
• - what do you want them to learn?
• - does that effect what language you will use?
• - does that mean you should lower your standards/expectations?

Rules about cheating - what is ‘cheating’ in CS? We all borrow code or code ideas. What are the limits?

School visits - choose 3 Mondays

Using Scratch to teach CS - John Maloney
    - is this just 'watering down' the CS course or is it the way to interest students in CS?
    - why would you NOT use this?

CS curriculum - from Man Ed
    - new ideas about GLOs 1 - 3
   - GLO 4 - technology
       - what's typical, what's unusual
      - does the sequence make sense? What alternate sequence could you use?
      - is it just another math course?

So - how should we get them started with CS?
What are different ways of getting them used to code?

• Give code with blanks to fill in
• Give code with simple errors
• Use templates that they can adapt

Remember
This is not just another math course!

x we need other examples and graphics and movement and ..........

x CS language skills / social skills / problem solving skills

x different aspects of CS - what should they know?

Jane McGonigal on TED and why we need to game more!
George Dyson on TED on The development of computers

Lab

Shared Google calendar - add your due dates.
Netvibes, google reader or another RRS reader.
Class wiki - request access
Gliffy - try it out




For next class - look at
- ten Golden Rules for Teaching Computer Science   
www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/talks/cse-97/cse-97.pdf
       (great ideas, but what are the problems?)

Linked on my netvibes.com/rredekopp page are:

Publish Post

- the CS Teacher blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/default.aspx
- and check the CSTA blog - http://blog.acm.org/csta/

Teacher and Technology Sept 14/15 2010

Sept 14/15 2010

Teacher and Technology - Dr. R. Redekopp

Shift Happens - are you ready?

MetaTeachnition - a new word for you to know. It means to think about your (or anyone else's) teaching and what is going on in terms of the you, the students, the classroom environment, your lesson, etc.

Introductions - one interesting thing about you!
- pictures (put your name - large and dark - on a piece of paper) and Mimio

Course outline
      Assignments! Read and weep - then boldly go where you have not gone before!! You can do this!!!

What is education?

• What are schools for? What is education? Why are you here? What do you hope to accomplish with your students?
• Write down a one or two sentence response
• Share with one other person and modify/revise if you wish
• Share with another pair of people
• What do some 'experts' say? Audio excerpt from TVO - The Agenda

Do the 'experts' change your mind? Which of their definitions do you like best?

For next week (Sept 21/22) read/watch/listen:
McLuhan - McLuhan Overview - roddy99 on YouTube (watch and take notes on the four things that change for next class)

Nicolas Carr – Is Google Making Us Stupid?

We can still read! - Why Digital Doesn't Mean Dumb!
What is a good teacher?
Gladwell - How to Identify a Good Teacher Prospect

CS Methods Sept 2010

Welcome here! It should be an awesome term.