In this episode, educator Laurie Guyon joins to discuss how to make computer science standards fun in any classroom. You’ll hear tools, activities, and strategies to incorporate computational thinking, STEAM, and coding with students of all ages and across subject areas!
This week’s episode is titled: “How to Make Computer Science Standards Fun” and I am so excited to have Laurie join me on the podcast today. As you’ll hear in our conversation, Laurie and I first met as fellow Nearpod Pioneers we were both ambassadors to of the Nearpod program, and connected on Twitter, and have spent lots of time together at events especially in New York State — including the NYSCATE conference one of my favorites to go to every November and you’ll hear the term NYSCATE brought up a couple times today this is the New York ISTE affiliate Laurie’s connected with them and I sat in on her session this past November all around the computer science standards.
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Tips for Teaching Computer Science Standards
- First, review your local computer science standards.
- Next, reflect on how you’re already addressing these standards.
- Then, introduce a hands-on activity.
- Finally, include computer science vocabulary in your next lesson.
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Episode Resources
- Connect with Laurie Guyon on Twitter
- Check out Laurie Guyon’s NY CS/DF Books (Activities and resources for the new NYSED digital fluency and computer science standards)
- Free for NY Educators NYSCATE Asynchronous courses
- Computer Science Standards for New York
- BOCES of New York State
- Computer Science Teaching Association (CSTA)
- ISTE Standards | The Leader in Edtech Standards
- CASEL (Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning)
- NYSCATE (The New York State Association for Computers and Technologies in Education)
- Nearpod (Student engagement tool)
- Flipgrid (Video discussion tool)
- Sphero Education (STEAM resource)
- ScratchJR (Coding tool for young kids)
- CASEL (Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning)
- How to Incorporate Computational Thinking in Any Subject with Jorge Valenzuela (Podcast Episode)
- How to Bring Coding Activities Into Any Classroom (Blog Post)
- Teach Coding to Elementary Students with an Adventure Course (Blog Post)
- Cyber Robotics Curriculum for Coding and STEM Skill-building (Blog Post)
- KOOV Trial Kit for Hands-On Classroom Coding, Robotics, and Design (Blog Post)
- Coding in the Classroom with Avokiddo Apps for Kids (Blog Post)
- From Screen to Robot: Engaging Students with Interactive STEM Education (Blog Post)
