Programs for Educators
IT-oLogy has educational partners that continuously look for ways to "Focus on the Faculty." We would like to provide some innovative ways to introduce information technology and computer science to young students, as well as their parents and the faculty administrators.
Are you an educator in the Upstate of South Carolina? This is for you!
An invitation to try Java for free!
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's 2012 New Year's Resolution: Learn to write computer code in JavaScript, the computer language featured in Code Year's learn-to-program website.
Why? Add up the 10 year projected growth in the USA's mathematician, statistician, scientist, engineering, physician and surgeon jobs, the computer science and IT job growth exceeds the total by nearly 60%. Coding is increasingly a type of 21st century literacy.
Do you want to become computer code literate but don't know how to get started?
Please join us for a super-fun, low-stress, no-cost introduction to computer programming in Java. No previous programming experience is needed.
Why Java?
It's everywhere: Java is the world's most common computer language. Unlike JavaScript (a different language primarily used for web pages), Java is a full featured language used for everything from robots and Android phones to cloud computing and web applications.
We teach it: Java is the language of AP Computer Science and an option in IB Computer Science.
We need to teach more of it: A recent CSTA survey reported only 18% of SC's high schools offer AP Computer Science, one of the lowest rates in the US.
When: Saturday, May 19, 2012 from 9 a.m. to noon. Bring a thumb drive for saving programs.
Where: The Computer Science Lab in room 105 at Southside High School (6630 Frontage @ White Horse Road, Greenville)
Cost: FREE!
Space is limited, please sign up today! Greenville County teachers can register on the portal under Introduction to Java Programming for technology credit. Others, please email Tom Rogers at tkrogers@greenville.k12.sc.us!
We recommend that CS teachers join organizations like the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and become involved in local and state wide chapter activities.
Listed below are a list of ideas to celebrate computer science education. Check out even more classroom resources at csta.acm.org and www.csedweek.org
- Use CSTA videos in morning announcements
- Hold a CS poster, video, commercial or essay contest
- Provide CS career posters to the guidance office
- Host a CS party and invite school administrators
- Have students tell a story using Alice or Scratch
- Invite a computer scientist to discuss the many jobs in CS
- Conduct CS4FN and CS Unplugged activities
- Have students create a webpage celebrating CS
- Plan student projects in collaboration with other sources
- Ask students to identify and discuss TV shows or movies that incorporate computers – from the current or the past
- View Randy Pausch’s “Last Lecture” video
- Ask students to discuss current events that involve CS
- Feature your CS Education Week activities in the local or school newspaper