Computer Science
in schools
or how can we make it not suck?
Welcome to Technology
COMPUTER SCIENCE
NOT
IMPORTANT
Digital Technologies Standards
what are they?
- Electronics
- Programming and CS
- "Business technology"
- Digital media
- Digital infrastructure
NCEA Achievement Standards
- Available only at Year 11/12/13
- OPTIONAL
- Language and platform agnostic
- Good formal standard
- NO Resources... pretty much
- NO Professional Development
Digital Technologies Teachers
- May come from "technology" subjects
- May have no CS/Maths background
- Still teaching experts though...
- Motivated to do best for their students
- Lack of skills, time, confidence, resources, material, admin support, tech support, infrastructure...
How can we help?
Public resources
CS Field Guide (Theory)
https://github.com/uccser/cs-field-guide
Need contributions and review
Practical resources for design and coding
None available
NZACDITT
http://nzacditt.org.nz/
Needs help
Code Club Aotearoa
http://www.codeclub.nz/
Need volunteers
Developers Developers Developers
Talk to schools
Make stuff for schools
Help after schools
Make Computer Science great again!