====== Week 1: Course Introduction and Teaching CS in High Schools ======

===== Objectives =====

To provide an overview of computer science education in high schools.

===== Readings =====
  * Judith Gal-Ezer and David Harel. 1998. [[http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/285070.285085|What (else) should CS educators know?. Commun. ACM 41, 9 (September 1998), 77-84. DOI=10.1145/285070.285085]] 
  * Gal-Ezer, J. & Stephenson, C. (2009). [[http://csta.acm.org/Research/sub/Projects/ResearchFiles/StateofCSEDHighSchool.pdf|The Current State of Computer Science in U.S. High Schools: A Report from Two National Surveys.]] Journal for Computing Teachers, Spring 2009.
  * Review [[methods:interviews|teacher interviews]].

===== Questions for Class Discussion =====
  - What was computer science education like in your school?
  - Were there both AP and pre-AP courses?
  - What was taught in the pre-AP courses?
  - What was your programming environment like?  What tools did you use?  Did you only program in a laboratory, or did you also use your own computer?

===== Topics =====

  * Current state of CS education in High Schools

===== Lab ======
  * CS Unplugged activities
  * Register for professional development sites (e.g., CSTA)