STI14/Resources

Broadening Participation

 * Win it in a Minute Fun Transitions
 * [[Media: Cup_Stack_Icebreaker.doc | Team Cup Stacking Exercise]]
 * [[Media:Mistakes (2).doc |Recruitment Mistakes]]

Careers

 * Career Pamphlet PDF
 * [[Media:SC-jobs-flyer-v2.pdf|Careers in NM]]
 * Career One Stop
 * [[media: Careeronestop_Outline.pdf‎|Outline for Career One Stop Website]]
 * Foggy Futures: The Confused Computing Career Aspirations of 12-year-olds
 * This Is What STEM Jobs Really Look Like (Fast Co.Exist)
 * STEM graduate shortage? Computer science is where the future jobs are

Computational Thinking

 * Carnegie Melon CT
 * Exploring Computational Thinking - Google
 * [[Media:Bringing CT to K-12.pdf| Bringing CT to K-12]]
 * Unplugged Activity Pages
 * CS Unplugged
 * [[Media:Cyber_Challenge-1.doc‎|Cyber Challenge]]
 * [[Media:CSP_Computational_Thinking(1).pdf | Computer Science: Principles; Computational Thinking Practices; Big Ideas, Key Concepts, and Supporting Concepts PDF]]

Computer Science

 * [[media:CS_TuesAMPedagogy.doc‎|Computer Science Pedagogy]]
 * Instructions: I am a Robot
 * Decomposition: Cake Factory
 * Parallelism - Parallel Processing Activities
 * Variables, conditionals, and evaluating expressions
 * Termites, hands on activity
 * Advocating for CS (computer science) in mid and high school
 * The Sorry State of CS1 (introductory computer science) Behind paywall.
 * CS/CT during IST & OST (What?) Computer Science/Computational Thinking during IST (In School Time) and OST (Out of School Time)
 * Computing in the Core: Advocating for K-12 Computer Science Education

Celebrating the 100th Centennial of Alan Turing's Birthday

 * Code Breaker the Life and Legacy of Alan Turing You Tube show
 * Code Breaker – Exhibit of the Work of Alan Turing
 * The Alan Turing Internet Scrapbook – The Turing Test, 1950
 * Radio Lab: Turing Test
 * 2012 The Alan Turing Year
 * Turing and his work, including Artificial Intelligence. Largest web collection of digital facsimiles of original documents by Turing and other pioneers of computing. Plus articles about
 * Alan Turing – Biography including Apology from British Government
 * A Turing Machine built using LEGO

Scratch Resources

 * Scratch
 * Computational Thinking
 * ScratchEd
 * Carl's Scratch Resources

Diversity

 * Diversity and Recruitment wiki
 * [[media:Diversity.pdf‎ | Diversity Statistics]][[media:Psap(1).doc‎ | PSAP Personal Stuck Action Plan]]
 * [[Media:ExpandingUnderrepresentedMinorityParticipation.pdf | Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation]]

Gender

 * Girls Win Google's Science Fair
 * [[Media:GenderDifferencesinStemFaculty.pdf | Gender Differences in Stem Faculty]]
 * First-Place Sweep by American Girls at First Google Science Fair
 * [[Media:BeyondBiasandBarriers.pdf | Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering]]
 * College mentors key to prospective female STEM major
 * How We Got 50 Women to Our Hackathon (And You Can, Too)
 * World needs more geek girls!
 * Girls in IT: The Facts

Privacy

 * Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion is a fascinating look at privacy from all perspectives. It was written in 2008, but could easily mistaken for an immediate response to current headlines regarding:  Wikileaks, the Boston Bombing, NSA Surveillance, Edward Snowden, etc.

Research

 * Research Wiki

Common Core Standards

 * Overview
 * The Standards

CSTA Curriculum Standards

 * CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards
 * Computer Science Teacher Certification Requirements

ISTE NETS

 * National Educational Technology Standards

Next Generation Science Standards

 * The Next Generation Science Standards

Teaming

 * Teaming Wiki

Technical Writing

 * [[media: STI_TechWriteOverview.doc‎ |Overview Technical Writing]]
 * [[media: STI_TechWritePresenation7-11.pdf‎ |Technical Writing Presentation]]
 * Purdue OWL - Online Writing Lab
 * How to Efficiently Write a Technical Report

Organizations and Free Lists and Newsletters

 * Supercomputing Challenge
 * Project GUTS.
 * Guts y Girls
 * NM Society for Technology in Education
 * CSTA - Computer Science Teacher Association
 * ISTE - International Society for Technology in Education
 * Updated NETS - National Educational Tech Standards
 * CS Bits and Bytes
 * State Science and Math Teachers' List
 * The Information Age Newsletter
 * Fractal Foundation

You Heard IT Here
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 * [[Media:acronym.docx | Acronyms]]
 * Does Math Exist Outside the Human Brain?
 * Come join the Challenge at the Maker Faire in ABQ
 * Education and Social Media
 * Here is an article about modeling tornadoes with supercomputers.
 * Rising Above the Gathering Storm Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5
 * Note: This legally downloads the pdf of the full report. But the pdf begins with an offer to sell you a print copy.  This is confusing!  Just scroll down to the report.
 * Drought and Wind Fuel Summer of Fire
 * STEM Report, referenced by Bobbi Eichhorst
 * Technology Student Organization, recommended by Bobbi Eichhorst
 * New Mexico chapter of TSA