For Oct 18 - 21 - R/W/L

 Games in Education? Are they beneficial? In what ways? How do we 'assess' progress?

R/W/L to at least one of these and try a game or two from the game sites:

What Exactly Are Kids Learning From Games?

George Lucas Foundation Series
Katie Salen On Learning With Games (Video)
James Paul Gee on Games and Assessment (Video)
No Gamer Left Behind (Video)

The Psych Files (blog with vodcast and text)

Research on violent games by Doug Gentile
Text interview with Doug Gentile on violent video games

Games Sites
Nobel Prize Site - Games
FutureLabs
HIstory Games - BBC

Colorado U project 
English Games

CS Methods Oct 12, 2010

Graphing Calculator story

Building the grade 10 curriculum - considering the curriculum from Manitoba Education, we will start trying to figure out how we can interest students in computer science without compromising the integrity of the subject.

What languages (if any) can appeal to students and teach the basic concepts we want students to learn?

Some resources:

Computer Science Teachers Association
Alfred Thompson - The Microsoft Computer Science Teacher’s Blog
Lawrenceville Press - Java text Table of Contents

Teacher and Tech Oct 8, 2010

Important Idea 6


Brain research and Digital Natives

Lab

In iMovie - first go to preferences and turn off letterboxing!
Theme for our videos ?

iMovie and MovieMaker

• make a plan (storyboard)
• do the filming
• capture your video
• edit it and add music, voice-overs and titles, etc.

T and T Oct 7 2010

FETC virtual

SmartBoard use

Assign 1 rubric - let’s make one at Rubistar.

Audacity demo

Important Idea 6


Brain research and Digital Natives (after metacognition)


Possible exam question: Of the brain research developments we have talked about, which will have the most impact on education and on how you teach?

Stations:
Smartboard - K,1/2, 2, 3/4
Audacity demo
Uses of video

T and T Oct 6 2010

Assign 1 - What is the summary? It should be the last thing.

Assign 1 rubric - let’s make one at Rubistar.


Possible exam question: Of the brain developments we have talked about, in brain research which will have the most impact on education and on how you teach?

Efficiency - from Food Inc.


Audacity demo

Important Idea 5



Brain research and Digital Natives (not A15)

Teacher and Tech Oct 5 2010

Class  

Efficiency - from Food Inc.

Assign 1 - What is the summary
Audacity demo
Important Idea 5


Brain research and Digital Natives

Lab

In iMovie - first go to preferences and turn off letterboxing!
Theme for our videos ?

iMovie and MovieMaker

• make a plan (storyboard)
• do the filming
• capture your video
• edit it and add music, voice-overs and titles, etc.

CS Methods Oct 5 2010

Presentation - Chris

Review of ideas from schools visits - and third school? What do you want to see?
    x who’s right - Kate or Chris?

Scratch, Alice or Scheme? Pros and cons?

   HS CS - intro / real CS / fluff credit / prep for real world.

Dr Java and Scheme ???

VB - can you teach CS with VB or Scheme?

    Or - What is computer Science really?


Graphing Calculator story