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Computer Science for Education User Tools Log In Site Tools Search Tools Show pagesource Old revisions Backlinks Recent Changes Media Manager Sitemap Log InRecent Changes Media Manager Sitemap Trace: • start Sidebar CS4EDU Wiki Overview People License Publications Courses Teaching Methods (EDPS 491) Contemporary Issues (CS 290) Activities 2012 Workshop Computational Thinking RET, Summer 2010 2009 Workshop Resources Related Sites References Internal Pages Contact Us start CS4EDU: Computer Science for Education The goal of the CS4EDU project is to create new pathways for undergraduate education majors to become computationally educated secondary teachers. This includes a joint effort between faculty in the Department of Computer Science and the College of Education to create a Computer Science Teaching Endorsement program, based on the educational computing standards set by the International Society for Technology in Education . A major focus of the teaching endorsement is on computer science as a creative discipline, enabling new fields and discoveries. The pathways to the endorsement program are targeted at diverse student groups: education majors are exposed to modules focused on computer science topics, science education majors are able to fulfill general course requirements while working towards the endorsement, and students transferring into education from a STEM discipline are building on their technical backgrounds. We are currently integrating modules on computational thinking into existing education courses. The modules highlight the pervasiveness of computational metaphors in topics like reasoning, knowledge construction, and problem solving. We have developed a course on contemporary issues in computing which explores how computing affects everyone and how the Internet has changed and will continue to change societies and individuals. A centerpiece of the CS Endorsement is a methods course with an associated teaching practicum in computer science. In the News Aman Yadav and Tim Korb argue for the need of a computer science methods courses to prepare CS teachers in this Communications of the ACM article (11/20/2012) The CS4EDU 2012 workshop for high school teachers was held this summer, July 31-August 1, 2012: Prof. Aman Yadav given courtesy appointment in CS (04/02/2012) Purdue CS news release on Teaching Endorsement (11/05/2010). Corresponding University News Service press release (12/06/2010) Purdue CS news release on Project CS4EDU (09/23/2009). Corresponding University News Service press release (10/13/2009) This work is supported by the National Science Foundation under grant CNS-0938999 and through a gift from State Farm. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. start.txt · Last modified: 2013/03/21 13:52 by Tim Korb Page Tools Show pagesource Old revisions BacklinksExcept where otherwise noted, content on this wiki is licensed under the following license: CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0...