Engaging middle school teachers and students with alice in a diverse set of subjects
Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Bridging the gap: cognitive scaffolding to improve computer programming for middle school teachers
FIE'09 Proceedings of the 39th IEEE international conference on Frontiers in education conference
Effective delivery of computing curriculum in middle school: challenges and solutions
Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Building upon and enriching grade four mathematics standards with programming curriculum
Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education
Bringing the breadth of computer science to middle schools
Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education
Integrating hard and soft skills: software engineers serving middle school teachers
Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education
Integrating computing into middle school disciplines through projects
Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education
Update on the CS principles project
Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education
CS Unplugged and Middle-School Students’ Views, Attitudes, and Intentions Regarding CS
ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE)
MyCS: a CS curriculum for middle-years students
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
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This paper describes the MyCS curriculum, which aims to encourage middle-years students, i.e., grades 4-10, to engage not only as consumers of CS, but as composers of computational artifacts. MyCS draws from many successful online tools and curricula, including Exploring Computer Science (ECS) and Scratch. MyCS's 18-week curriculum balances a broad treatment of the modern role of the computer with deepening students' hands-on skills through computational problem-solving, both unplugged and via programming. This paper summarizes assessments from several MyCS professional-development workshops, with an emphasis on eliciting teachers' needs and goals for their classrooms. In addition, we discuss the project's future in the format of a teacher-mediated MOOC that will enable a larger group of teachers to engage their students in CS.