How Can I Help?

What Can I Do to Raise Awareness About These Issues?

  • Visit this site often and join in the conversation
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  • Share through our social media sites your videos, pictures, and other resources to show what computer science education means to you

What Activities Can We Undertake to Support Computer Science Education Week?

For Policymakers

  1. Ensure that computer science learning is based on conceptual knowledge of the field
  2. Make rigorous high school computer science a core course for graduate requirements in math or science
  3. Introduce computational thinking in the crucial K-8 years
  4. Expand efforts to increase the number of females and underrepresented minorities in the field
  5. Clarify and expand computer science teacher professional development opportunities
  6. Implement a specific set of rigorous computer science standards for secondary education
  7. Adopt initiatives to increase the number of students taking Advanced Placement computer science
  8. Focus research funding on K-12 computer science education
  9. Review how states can improve computing teacher certification requirements
  10. Share jobs data with your communities that demonstrate the employment opportunities in computing

For Teachers

  1. Have students keep a journal of all technology they use in a day
  2. Hold a computer science poster, video, commercial or essay contest (possible topic – What future computer technology would you like to see developed?)
  3. Have students tell a story using Alice or Scratch
  4. Invite an outside speaker (e.g., local computer scientist) to discuss the many jobs in computer science
  5. Conduct CS4FN and CS Unplugged activities
  6. Have students create a web page celebrating CSEdWeek
  7. Hold a competition on standard computer science problems. Examples may be found on the American Computer Science League Web site, on many college or university Web sites such as Slippery Rock University, or by searching for interesting competition problems
  8. Ask students to identify and discuss TV shows or movies that incorporate computers; or compare computer technology contained in 1960’s movies to current movies
  9. Show students the Randy Pausch “Last Lecture” video or the University of Washington CSE videos
  10. Ask students to identify and discuss current events that have computer science as a theme