====== Week 6: Kinesthetic Activities ======

===== Objectives =====

  * Become familiar with kinesthetic activities useful for explaining programming concepts.

===== Readings for Class Discussion =====

Required Readings

  * Stanford, P. (2003). [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10534512030390020301|MI for every classroom.]] Intervention in school and clinic, 39(2). 80-85
  * Jenkins, T. (1998). [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/290320.283090|A participative approach to teaching programming. SIGCSE Bull.30,3 (August 1998),125-129.]] 
  * [[http://cs4edu.cs.purdue.edu/methods:material:kinesthetic|Resource materials, including Robb Cutler videos]] (review for discussion)

Optional Readings

  * Anewalt (2007). [[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1295109.1295133|Making CS0 Fun: An Active Learning Approach Using Toys, Games, and Alice]]
  * Pollard, et al (2006).  [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1124706.1121411|Everything I Needed to Know About Teaching I Learned in Kindergarten: Bringing Elementary Education Techniques to Undergraduate Computer Science Classes]]
  * Wolz, et al (2011).  [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1999747.1999769|Kinesthetic Learning of Computing vis "Off-beat" Activities]]

===== Topics =====

  * Why
    * Helps to internalize and maintain abstract information
    * Average attention span for a 16 year old is 7 minutes
    * Makes learning accessible
    * Difficult cs topics
    * Encourages working with peers
  * How
    * Learning by doing
    * Clear details and expectations for each activity must be provided
    * Role plays
    * Simulations
    * Manipulatives
    * Group discussions on a specific study topic

===== Lab ======

  * AP CS: Decisions; Iteration