Sentences with phrase «to teach computer science»

I have taught computer science courses, financial literacy classes to adults and children, and courses on how to buy apartment buildings.

The only thing is, you don't teach computer science — and you have no idea how to teach coding.

This bill would require the SSPI to identify and post on the CDE Internet Web site professional development resources for teaching computer science curriculum content.

Develop Conference: «We now have at least a ten year gap in teaching Computer Science in the UK», says David Braben

Shieber, who teaches computer science at Harvard University and is the faculty director of the university's Office for Scholarly Communications, originally introduced this model agreement in February of 2014 on his blog The Occasional Pamphlet.

Deeply committed to create an environment where students learn and grow at the same time, I plan to utilize my knowledge and background of teaching computer science in providing the right guidance to the students of your institutions.

«We came to the profession for student achievement — not for June, July and August,» said Terrel Smith, a 32 - year classroom veteran who teaches computer science and coaches track and field in Sherwood, Ore. «That's a good joke, but it's not true.»

Indeed, the presentations at the conference offered a range of uses for Scratch, from teaching computer science and algebra to providing a social instructional environment where kids can teach other kids.

Usage of these additional funds is at each school's discretion, so we suggest asking your administration if some of that funding can be put towards teaching computer science with a Kodable subscription.

Mr. Lionello taught computer science part time at North Central College in Naperville, DePaul University, Chicago, and at Roosevelt University.

Once the Network is live, each school in it will be expected to help other schools to teach computer science on a pro-bono basis.

Teaching computer science within a rounded computing curriculum that includes digital literacy is now regarded as of paramount importance by the Department for Education.

«So it is really hard for high schools to compete in the same talent pool for the same people when they try to recruit teachers to teach a computer science program.»

JE: Professor Tim Bell, talking about Computer Science Unplugged which, let me see if I've got this right, is teaching Computer Science without a computer.

SAM Labs also offers a solution for teachers who are teaching computer science by providing in - classroom support around the STEAM Kit for both the early adopter and the tech - hesitant teacher by offering fully integrated and curriculum ‑ based lesson plans and hands - on teacher support.

He currently teaches computer science and heads the technology resource teachers group at Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Join us for a conversation with Sarah Carter, from SciGirls, and Ricarose Roque, of the University of Colorado, Boulder, for a conversation on overcoming these obstacles, from picking the right tools to teach computer science after school to training program facilitators to use them and beyond.

In the UK there are currently 119 universities teaching computer science courses.

The company charges $ 250 per month for once - a-week classes and pays its teachers an undisclosed amount based on their previous experience teaching computer science to children.

The practical, hands - on workshops are designed to help teachers understand the changes to the primary computing curriculum, introducing them to computational thinking and getting them started with cross-curricular ideas for teaching computer science.

The schools will be expected to teach computer science at Key Stage 3 or 4 as a catalyst for a renewed computing curriculum as recommended by the Royal Society, which is benchmarked against the Computing At School (CAS) curriculum.

-- Jeremy Keeshin, cofounder and CEO of CodeHS, an online platform to teach computer science in high schools and middle schools used by hundreds of thousands of students

Teacher reflections on the practice of teaching computer science, as well as broader educational issues

Barefoot offers free teaching - resources and volunteer - led training workshops, designed to help primary school teachers get more confident when teaching computer science and computing skills.

Up in Seattle in 2006, a young Google engineer named Christophe Bisciglia was using his 20 percent time to teach a computer science course at the University of Washington.

The education department, together with the British Computer Society, is running a campaign to get new blood to teach computer science with awards of # 9,000 to # 20,000 to people signing up to the computer science initial teacher training scheme which starts in September 2013.

Prof Tom Crick, who teaches computer science and public policy at Cardiff Metropolitan University, told BBC Radio Wales» Good Morning Wales programme it would help improve teaching standards.

In 1975, Kildall was teaching computer science at a small naval college in California and was consulting for Intel Corp., manufacturer of the first microprocessor used in personal computers.

After a brief period of training focused on teaching in a developing country, and an adaptation phase upon arrival, Wood joined the Federal Polytechnic in Damaturu, teaching computer science to undergraduates and training a local professor to do the same.

I teach computer science and electrical engineering, and English literature.

To do this, we need teachers who can teach computer science.

CAS is also able to offer advice through its regional network to teachers who want to teach computer science.

Though he did teach computer science for a few years after graduating from UC Berkeley, after completing the Technology, Innovation, and Education (TIE) Program at HGSE, Wang took a job with Microsoft.

Leaving aside all of the obvious practical concerns, like whether schools have or can develop staff qualified to teach computer science, this new research raises questions about the aim of these policies.

Seymour Papert (Schwarz, 1999), one of the bet known advocates for teaching computer science and programming in schools, sums this up well: «anyone who has witnessed a toddler using a computer has probably experienced a sense of awe at that child's facility with what for adults can be an infinitely frustrating gadget.

If you're teaching computer science to kids, you want to pair up learners.

Australia's new government will continue with the development of a new digital technologies curriculum, the nation's first formal effort to teach computer science from kindergarten to year ten in every primary and high school.

He currently teaches at Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he teaches computer science and supports faculty in the one - to - one program.