Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy,

and AweMaking Computing Fun Again, pt 4

MICHELLEFRIEND HUTTON

CSTA PRESIDENT

DAN GARCIA

UC Berkeley JOSH

PALEYGUNN HS

EUGENELEMON

RALPH J BUNCHE HS

2011-03-12

Dallas, TX

2/6Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and

AweMaking Computing Fun Again, pt 4

Grady Booch @ SIGCSE 2007 Need to articulate, emphasize

the “wonder and awe” of computing

PBJA1 session @ SIGCSE 2008 Crisis in computing, what can

help in K-12, working w/student groups

Rebooting Computing Summit Subtitle: “Magic & Beauty of CS” Working group: K-8

FUNdamentals PBJA2 session @ SIGCSE 2009

Crisis update, Listening to our students, Relevant projects to them

PBJA3 session @ SIGCSE 2010 Curriculum, PD, community,

industry fighting “there’s an app for that”

PBJA4 session @ SIGCSE 2011 (Sat@11) 3 others in K-12 will share vision

The “Passion, Beauty, Joy, Awe” movement

Grady Booch @ SIGCSE 2007

3/6Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and

AweMaking Computing Fun Again, pt 4

Original need driven by computing crisis Numbers show upswing,

others near historic highs!

We should ALWAYS be looking to share PBJA asking students what

they want & what inspires them

PBJA4 presenters: K-12 Background of their

school What PBJA means to

them What they’ve done / seen What we should do How we should do it

The topic is timeless…every SIGCSE! Enrollment trends @ UC

Berkeleyin all Self-paced courses

Sp08 Fa

08Sp

09 Fa09

Sp10 Fa

10Sp

110

100200300400500600700

4/6Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and

AweMaking Computing Fun Again, pt 4

CS Education Crisis Perfect Storm

CS10k project(get it taught in 10,000 schools by10,000 teachers by 2015)

…New AP Computer Science : Principles

5/6Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and

AweMaking Computing Fun Again, pt 4

Beauty, Joy of Big Ideas History, limits, future, and

social implications of computing

Apps that changed the world

CS + X, simulations “How it works” sessions Current events in

computing Abstraction, algorithms,

data, programming paradigms, concurrency, networking, AI, …

Beauty, Joy of Programming UC Berkeley’s BYOB Scratch

w/l Recursion, graphics,

multimedia, animation, games, simulations …

Pair programming, online exams, labs, two of their projects, essay

UCB: The Beauty and Joy of Computing

Winner

Winner

Pilot

Fall 2009 students pair programming

BYOB w/l

inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs10/

Pilot

UC

6/6Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and

AweMaking Computing Fun Again, pt 4

Let’s all foster, find and share PBJA and bring it into our classrooms Interview your

students Rethink your CS0,

CS1 Start w/BYOB Scratch

+ l! Get involved in K-12!

Start a CSTA chapter Help the CS10k / AP

teams Let’s continue the

discussion online!

“And in Conclusion…”computingportal.org/pbja