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Physical Computing with micro:bits and Makecode

User Generated Education

I am quite fond of facilitating physical computing activities with my learners as I’ve discussed in Scratch and Makey Makey Across the Curriculum . For that post I created the following graphic to represent the benefits of physical computing.

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Welcome New Computer Science Teachers

Computer Science Teacher

For one thing a lot of teachers have been voluntold that they are going to teach computer science in the fall.Some have never taught CS before. Hopefully, all CS teachers join the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA). Many people also join Computer Science Educators which is a wide ranging group for CS teachers.

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Computational Thinking and Physics

Scientix

Description of the activity: Teaching physics not only requires logical thinking but also provides opportunities for its development. Logical thinking plays a crucial role in coding and programming, making physics lessons essential for fostering computational thinking.

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A Spoon Full of Computer Science

Computer Science Teacher

I did find their definition : data science the science of collecting, organizing, and drawing general conclusions from data, with the help of computers. The idea of teaspoon languages is to add some computer science to other subjects to broaden participation in CS. Note that Bootstrap also has Bootstrap Physics !

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How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything

Stephen Wolfram

And in our century there’s a new and yet more powerful one: computation. And for nearly 50 years I’ve had the great privilege of building an ever taller tower of science and technology based on that idea of computation. And I ended that talk with a question: is computation ultimately what’s underneath everything in our universe?

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Tech Tip #25: My Keyboard Doesn’t Work

Ask a Tech Teacher

As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Maybe the cord that connects the keyboard to the computer is loose or fell out. Sometimes the stuff in the computer’s boot-up sequence that makes the keyboard work gets lost.

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Teaching Computer Science–Moving atoms not pixels

Computer Science Teacher

Robots, game controllers, Internet of Things, and more are ways that computer science interacts with physical objects and not just pixels on a screen. These are ways that teachers can bring more students to more interesting (to the student) to get involved with computer science. But where to start?