A crowdsourced blog post about my SIGCSE Keynote: Computing Education as a Foundation for 21st Century Literacy
March 2, 2019 at 8:00 am 3 comments
I had an unusual (and lazy) idea for my SIGCSE Keynote. I didn’t have the time or energy to write a blog post. How about if I asked everyone to tweet my talk, and I’ll just copy-paste them together? I got a response — too large of a response. There were well over 1000 tweets!
I couldn’t review all of them. I selected a set that covered the key points in the talk, grouped around topics/order in the talk. All the slides are available on Slideshare.net here. A complete “live blogging” account is here.
Starting out
History of Computer Science and Teaching CS to Everyone
https://twitter.com/rgrasser22/status/1101496837981327362
From Computational Thinking to Scientific, Engineering, and Historical Thinking
Examples: Sound Demonstration and Subgoal Labeling
https://twitter.com/andicat/status/1101499721246535680
I had several requests for the code I ran in the demo in JES (which is available here):
def increaseVolume(sound): for sample in getSamples(sound): value = getSampleValue(sample) setSampleValue(sample, value * 4) def maximize(sound): for sample in getSamples(sound): value = getSampleValue(sample) if value >= 0: setSampleValue(sample,32600) if value < 0: setSampleValue(sample, -32600)
The sound visualization GP project is here.
You can get GP at http://gpblocks.org.
Call to Action
Q & A
Composite
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1. cycomachead | March 3, 2019 at 1:27 am
Fantastic keynote and a very well deserved award! Congrats!
And that’s for stopping by my poster today, too. 🙂
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