1. Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and Awe Making Computing Fun Again, pt 4 2011-03-12 Dallas, TX

2. 2/6 Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and Awe Making Computing Fun Again, pt 4  Grady Booch @ SIGCSE 2007  Need to articulate, emphasize the “wonder and awe” of computing  PBJA 1 session @ SIGCSE 2008  Crisis in computing, what can help in K-12, working w/student groups  Rebooting Computing Summit  Subtitle: “Magic & Beauty of CS”  Working group: K-8 FUNdamentals  PBJA 2 session @ SIGCSE 2009  Crisis update, Listening to our students, Relevant projects to them PBJA 3 session @ SIGCSE 2010  Curriculum, PD, community, industry fighting “there’s an app for that”  PBJA 4 session @ SIGCSE 2011 (Sat@11)  3 others in K-12 will share vision The “Passion, Beauty, Joy, Awe” movement Grady Booch @ SIGCSE 2007

3. 3/6 Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and Awe Making Computing Fun Again, pt 4  Original need driven by computing crisis  Numbers show upswing, others near historic highs!  We should ALWAYS be  looking to share PBJA  asking students what they want & what inspires them  PBJA 4 presenters: K-12  Background of their school  What PBJA means to them  What they’ve done / seen  What we should do  How we should do it The topic is timeless…every SIGCSE! Enrollment trends @ UC Berkeley Enrollment trends @ UC Berkeley in all Self-paced courses

4. 4/6 Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and Awe Making Computing Fun Again, pt 4 CS Education Crisis Perfect Storm CS10k project (get it taught in 10,000 schools by 10,000 teachers by 2015) … New AP Computer Science : Principles

5. 5/6 Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and Awe Making Computing Fun Again, pt 4  Beauty, Joy of Big Ideas  History, limits, future, and social implications of computing  Apps that changed the world  CS + X, simulations  “How it works” sessions  Current events in computing  Abstraction, algorithms, data, programming paradigms, concurrency, networking, AI, …  Beauty, Joy of Programming  UC Berkeley’s BYOB Scratch w/  Recursion, graphics, multimedia, animation, games, simulations …  Pair programming, online exams, labs, two of their projects, essay UCB: The Beauty and Joy of Computing Winne r Pilo t Fall 2009 students pair programming BYOB w/ BYOB w/ inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs10/ Pilo t UC

6. 6/6 Rediscovering the Passion, Beauty, Joy, and Awe Making Computing Fun Again, pt 4  Let’s all foster, find and share PBJA and bring it into our classrooms  Interview your students  Rethink your CS0, CS1  Start w/BYOB Scratch + !  Get involved in K-12!  Start a CSTA chapter  Help the CS10k / AP teams  Let’s continue the discussion online! “And in Conclusion…” computingportal.org/pbja