Other Computer Science Teacher Blogs to Follow
Teach180 Blogs- Lisa Bejarano's Teach180 Blog for AP CSP - https://180daysofapcsp.wordpress.com/
- Dan Scheinder's Tumbler180 page for ALL of his CS classes - https://codeymccoderson.tumblr.com/
- Matt Owen's Teach180 Blog for AP CSP - https://owencsp180.wordpress.com/
- Steph Reilly's Teach 180 Blog https://dayinthelifeofreilly.wordpress.com/
- Max Bigman's blog - a CS teacher at a all girls school in CA. Thinking about PBL and creative coding. Also, just a cool person.
AP CSP
Global ImpactPodcasts This Radio Lab podcast about manipulating video and audio - what happens when "Fake News" could be "Fake Audio" or "Fake Video" Radio Lab's Trust Engineers podcast - How Facebook can experiment on people's wellbeing
Radio Lab About Speed of Data and Algorithms - What role did an algorithm have in the financial market collapse? Also touches on the physical Internet.
Computer or Human? + Thad - an Invisibilia episode about human and computer interaction.
Bit Flip - Radio lab episode that blew. my. mind. It is all about how space rays "flip" bits on electronic devices unintentionally. When it comes to thinking of impact of storing things in binary, this episode makes it really obvious.
Articles
Internet of things and security article from NPR
A flip grid of all types of articles about impact and privacy from Dan Schneider
Videos
The Coming Swarm from 60 minutes - About automation in the military
The Human Face of Big Data - this is a PBS video which was really well done. It is a bit dated but I think it is still relevant. It uses great data visualizations to show how data is used to for companies to make predictions and who owns the data. |
GIFs showing how maps of subway systems really work.
Data
60 Minutes Video: Data Brokers - selling your personal data Morgan Spurlock's Inside Man - On buying back data |
The Internet
Dan's Alternative Research Project with more options |
Cyber Security
Derek's Cybersecurity Site
Algorithms
Other CS resources
POGIL WKST - https://sites.google.com/site/pogilcsp/csta2015
Assessement in CS - http://pact.sri.com/projects.html
Nifty CS assignments - http://nifty.stanford.edu/Coding Bat - Extra Problems/labs for Java
Washington's Practice Problems with Java (CSA)
Text book that uses BlueJ as the IDE - first few chapters free
ZYbooks - online textbook to try
Tutorial for using BlueJ for beginners
Java for Kids book - has a lot of analogies which I could turn into lectures
This blogger keeps pretty good track of what he did
AP CSA Test Prep
Practice AP Problem Bank (recommended by TJ)
Intro to Objects
This stack exchange has several different metaphors for how to introduce objects.
Kingdom of Nouns blog post - story time for students
Good AP CSA Labs
Baker's maps lab
A database of labs gathered by another teacher by topic
Advanced labs from teacher with open site
This escape room lab - for if statements?
A set of java game labs from a former CSA teacher
Mr. Lee's Complete site with worksheets and labs
Yet another site filled with several different worksheets
AP CSA Exam Cram Sheet - I am looking through this for each unit since I think this will highlight the major misconceptions for students in each unit.
Sandy's Data Structures Ideas
My Dream Classroom
Pro-assessment, anti-grades
Doing final exams differently in CS classes.
This blog post shows the single point rubric for self assessment.
Degrading and de-grading - Alfie Cohen's post about the dangers of grading
Ed. Leadership and Alfie Cohen's article on getting rid of grading
Classroom management
The no hands classroom - different from TLC but more authentic.
Interview Tools
6 Questions to ask at an interview
Brain break ideas
Snap-wink
Math
Intermediate AlgebraMobiles
Did you continue with your interactive notebooks with your AP CSP class or did you decide to ditch them after a year or two? I've done notebooks in my math classes before but not my AP CSP class. I feel like having the information to reference in a notebook would be helpful for certain topics.
ReplyDeleteWould you be willing to share the interactive notebook resources that you created for AP CSP?