Beauty And Joy Of Computing Curriculum

It cov ers the big ideas and computational thinking practices required in the ap csp curriculum framework and powerful computer science ideas like recursion and higher order functions.

Beauty and joy of computing curriculum. The development of this site is funded by the national science foundation under grant number 144 1075. This endorsement affirms that all components of beauty and joy of computing s offerings are aligned to the ap curriculum framework standards and the ap csp assessment. That s why the original authors from the university of california berkeley formed a partnership with the high school curriculum experts at edc education development center. Using an endorsed provider affords schools access to resources including an ap csp syllabus pre approved by the college board s ap course audit.

Too much scaffolding in a project and the joy is gone. Is licensed under a creative commons attribution noncommercial sharealike 4 0 international license. Home conferences sigcse proceedings sigcse 20 the beauty and joy of computing curriculum and teacher professional development. The beauty and joy of computing by university of california berkeley and education development center inc.

Too little scaffolding and the student feels helpless and incompetent. Beauty and joy of computing bjc is a cs principles course whose guiding philosophy is to meet students where they are but not to leave them there. The beauty and joy of computing curriculum and teacher professional development. With its partners edc is carrying out several strategic strands of work writing a high school ap csp course rooted in the beauty and joy of computing curriculum from the university of california berkeleydesigning professional development and implementation support for over 100 nyc teachers to prepare them to teach the coursescaling up the project over four years to reach an.

The beauty and joy of computing bjc curriculum is designed to provide students with the opportunity to develop computational thinking practices and an understanding of the social implications of computing and to engage in programming. Any opinions findings and. It s not easy to preserve beauty and joy when translating a course taught by its authors into a curriculum for widespread use. Our syllabus see below has been approved by the college board for the 2017 2018 academic year.

The teaching the beauty and joy of computing bjc curriculum massive open online course for educators mooc ed provides professional development and support for teachers of the bjc high school computer science curriculum. From the college board csp site. University of california berkeley berkeley ca usa.