"Georgia computes!"

Bruckman, Amy; Biggers, Maureen; Ericson, Barbara; McKlin, Tom; Dimond, Jill; DiSalvo, Betsy; Hewner, Mike; Ni, Lijun; Yardi, Sarita

doi:10.1145/1508865.1508899

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“…started because of interest within the state Department of Education to grow participation in the Advanced Placement Computer Science (AP CS) courses [Bruckman et al 2009]. In 2004, the AP CS exams moved from C++ to Java.…”

Section: How Georgia Computes Came To Bementioning

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Georgia Computes! An Intervention in a US State, with Formal and Informal Education in a Policy Context

Guzdial

Ericson

McKlin³

et al. 2014

ACM Trans. Comput. Educ.

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Georgia Computes! (GaComputes) was a six-year (2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012) project to improve computing education across the state of Georgia in the United States, funded by the National Science Foundation. The goal of GaComputes was to broaden participation in computing and especially to engage more members of underrepresented groups which includes women, African Americans, and Hispanics. GaComputes' interventions were multi-faceted and broad: summer camps and after-school/weekend programs for 4th-12th grade students, professional development for secondary teachers, and professional development for post-secondary instructors/faculty. All of the efforts were carefully evaluated by an external team (led by the third and fourth authors), which provides us with an unusually detailed view into a computing education intervention across a region (about 59K square miles, about 9.9 million residents). Our dataset includes evaluations from over 2,000 students who attended after-school or weekend workshops, over 500 secondary school teachers who attended professional development, 120 post-secondary teachers who attended professional development, and over 2,000 students who attended a summer day (non-residential) camp. GaComputes evaluations provide insight into details of interventions and into influences on student motivation and learning. In this article, we describe the results of these evaluations and describe how GaComputes broadened participation in computing in Georgia through both direct interventions and indirect support of other projects.

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Section: How Georgia Computes Came To Bementioning

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Georgia Computes! An Intervention in a US State, with Formal and Informal Education in a Policy Context

Guzdial

Ericson

McKlin³

et al. 2014

ACM Trans. Comput. Educ.

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“…Saint Joseph's University became the site at which the Teacher Enrichment in Computer Science course was based [5]. The Georgia Institute of Technology also put in an effort to improve the aging computer science education pipeline currently employed in the state by offering a series of teacher workshops, starting in 2006, to influence CS teaching styles in a positive manner [4]. However, at the time of this writing, to our knowledge, no workshop directed at K-12 teachers based on Stencyl has been attempted.…”

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Making games a "snap" with Stencyl

Liu

Lin

Wilson

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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Game design is becoming increasingly popular among K-12 teachers and students. In this paper, we present our experience, findings, and lessons learned from conducting a one-week Stencyl Game Design Summer Computing Workshop for K-12 teachers. Our workshop focused on introducing fundamental computing concepts to K-12 teachers using Stencyl, a drag-and-drop game development environment. During the workshop, the teachers developed curriculum games for the subjects they will teach in the following semesters with the help of our workshop tutors. Our assessment results show that the average score of Stencyl knowledge in the pre-workshop survey was 1.26 out of 5, which was increased to 3.76 in the post-workshop survey and the average score of computing knowledge was improved by 61%.

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“…The Georgia Institute of Technology put in an effort to improve the aging computer science education pipeline currently employed in the state of Georgia by offering a series of teacher workshops, starting in 2006, to influence CS teaching styles in a positive manner [12]. Half of the participants reported they had been able to effectively use the knowledge and materials gained from the workshop.…”

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Computer science learning made interactive — A one-week alice summer computing workshop for K-12 teachers

Liu

Lin

Hasson

et al. 2012

2012 Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings

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In this paper, we present our experience, findings, and lessons learned from conducting a one-week Alice summer computing workshop for K-12 teachers. Our workshop focuses on using Alice, a 3D programming environment, to introduce computing concepts to K-12 teachers in all subjects so that these teachers can pass on their knowledge and inspiration to their students. During the workshop, the teachers developed curriculum materials for the subjects they will teach in the following semesters with the help of our workshop tutors. Workshop assessment results show a 52% increase in confidence level in teaching computer science and a 44% computing knowledge level increase.

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"Georgia computes!"

Cited by 43 publications

References 9 publications

Georgia Computes! An Intervention in a US State, with Formal and Informal Education in a Policy Context

Georgia Computes! An Intervention in a US State, with Formal and Informal Education in a Policy Context

Making games a "snap" with Stencyl

Computer science learning made interactive — A one-week alice summer computing workshop for K-12 teachers

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Georgia Computes! An Intervention in a US State, with Formal and Informal Education in a Policy Context

Georgia Computes! An Intervention in a US State, with Formal and Informal Education in a Policy Context

Making games a "snap" with Stencyl

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