Posted on May 3rd, 2010 by ASEE
A Houston area school district plans to open an Academy of Game Design this fall at Willowridge High School. Students will learn the basics of game design, including 2D and 3D animation, graphics, lighting, and sound mixing. Computer game developer Rodney Gibbs applauds the idea. His work invovles a great deal of calculus, physics, engineering, computer science,” he says. But for young people, “video games are like the cheese on broccoli.”
Read More
Filed under: K-12 Education News | Comments Off on Game Design Instruction: Cheese on Broccoli
Tags: Computer Engineering, Computer Programming, Computer Science, Curriculum
Posted on April 12th, 2010 by Jaimie Schock
Give kids a laptop and a wireless broadband connection and just watch them search, chat, and network. But that’s not good enough, says the Computer Science Teachers Association, which wants more schools teaching students how computers actually work.
Read More
Filed under: K-12 Education News | 1 Comment »
Tags: Computer Engineering, Computer Programming, Computer Science, Curriculum, Software
Posted on April 12th, 2010 by Jaimie Schock
A project initiated by three Pacific University researchers aims to find out if immersing adolescent girls in a four-week summer camp that’s steeped in computer science can affect their lives.
Read More
Filed under: K-12 Education News | Comments Off on Computer Science in the Long-Term
Tags: Computer Science, Programs for Girls, Research on Learning, Summer Camps & Programs (Students)
Posted on January 26th, 2009 by ASEE
This lesson for students in grades 5 through 12 explores how computerized barcoding has simplified distributing and pricing of products. Students learn about encoding and decoding, the barcoding system, and how a mathematical formula is embedded in barcoding to safeguard against errors. They use websites to identify product barcodes, test codes from everyday products, and work as an engineering team to come up with the next generation of information embedding systems.
Read More
Filed under: Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Grades K-5, Lesson Plans | 6 Comments »
Tags: Computer Programming, Computer Science, Math Lesson Plans, Mathematics