The Computer Science ImperativeTCEA CS AcademyJuly 2015@HalSpeed @TACSEd

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Index of Changing Work Tasks in the U.S. Economy 1960-2009

Source: http://content.thridway.org/publications/714/Dancing-With-Robots.pdf

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Jobs Shifting in the Digital Era

Agrarian Workers(farmers) Industrial Workers

(manufacturing) Creative/Digital Workers(knowledge & technology)

Source: Richard Florida, Rise of the Creative Class (2002) and Dan Taylor (2013)

4 Source: http://www.weforum.org/reports/new-vision-education-unlocking-potential-technology

4. ICT literacy – Ability to use and create technology-based content, including finding and sharing information, answering questions, interacting with other people and computer programming

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Why I started TACSE

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Principals and Administrators

Teachers & Counselors

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Public Education is a Complex System

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TACSE Objectives

“Traditional” CS Students

Everyone Else,the

“Digitally Illiterate”

Digital Jobs

Everyone Becomes “Literate” in the

Digital Society

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Teach every student the

foundational understanding of computer science

Increase the numberof students

pursuing digital careers

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1A. Teach every student the foundational understanding of computer science

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Computer Science

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Computer Programming

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Software Implementation

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1B. Increase the number of students pursuing digital careers

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What Happened to Women in Computer Science?

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Computer Science is the Fastest Growing AP Course of the 2010s

Source: Code.org, College Board

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Information Technology Industry Trends

Source: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/information-technology-industry

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26 Source: http://austintechnologycouncil.org/atc-shares-preliminary-findings-of-tech-talent-study/

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Top Hard Skills in Demand

http://www.austinchamber.com/education-talent/job-market/june-2015.phpSkills in demand for available jobs in the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos MSA from May 14, 2015 to June 13, 2015

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Texas Required High School Curriculum

English language arts (5) Mathematics (5) Science (6) Social Studies (5) Physical Education (2) Fine Arts (8) Career and Technical Education (12) Language Other than English (3) Speech (1)…

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74.3(b)(2)(I) Tech App Curriculum Requirement – every district must offer, and74.3(b)(4) each student must have the opportunity to participate in the following:

Computer Science I

AP Computer Scienceor

At least two (2) of the following:• Computer Science III• Digital Art and Animation• Digital Communications in the 21st

Century• Digital Design and Media

Production• Digital Forensics

• Digital Video and Audio Design• Discrete Mathematics for

Computer Science• Fundamentals of Computer Science• Game Programming and Design• Independent Study in

Evolving/Emerging Technologies• Independent Study in Technology

Applications• Mobile Application Development• Robotics Programming and Design• 3-D Modeling and Animation• Web Communications• Web Design• Web Game Development

Computer Science II

…and Technology Applications (4)

Source: http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter074/ch074a.html

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Texas Computer Science Task Force

Met on Oct 8, 2014 at Austin Chamber of Commerce

15 people representing CS teachers, edtech business, higher ed, TCEA, CTAT, Code.org, College Board, ISD leaders and policymakers

Built consensus around key barriers and recommendations

http://www.thetrc.org/computer-science-resources/

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Texas Computer Science Task Force

Source: Carol Fletcher, Building the Texas Computer Science Pipeline

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Texas Teacher Certification: Computer Science 8-12

2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015*0

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Source: https://secure.sbec.state.tx.us/Reports/prodrpts/rpt_edu_tchr_prod_counts.asp* Sept 2014-Apr 2015, all other years Sept-Aug

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Texas Teacher Certification: Computer Science 8-12

2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015*0

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CS Offerings in Texas 2013-14

Based on data obtained from Teacher FTE Counts and Course Enrollment Reports

PEIMS # Course FTEs Student Enrollment

03580200 Computer Science I 68.47 9,132

03580300 Computer Science II 13.14 879

A3580100 AP Computer Science A 51.54 5,572

TOTAL 133.15 15,583

Source: http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/adhocrpt/adfte.html

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cs10kcommunity.org/projects code.org/learn

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texascomputerscience.weebly.comthetrc.org/computer-science-resources

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Recruitment and Clubs ncwit.org yeswecode.org starsalliance.org madewithcode.com cs-first.com blackgirlscode.com

girlswhocode.com girlstart.org coderdojo.com ngcproject.org codenow.org techgirlz.org

girlsintech.org tech-girls.org code2040.org projectcsgirls.com girldevelopit.com

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Thank you!

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Productivity Grows Wages

Increase

Workers Buy More

Companies Hire MoreTax Revenue

Increases

Government Invests More

Workers Better Educated

Economy Expands

VirtuousCycle

Source: Inequality for All

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Program or Be Programmed

Digital technology is programmed. This makes it biased toward those with the capacity to write the code. In a digital age, we must learn how to make the software, or risk becoming the software. It is not too difficult or too late to learn the code behind the things we use—or at least to understand that there is code behind their interfaces. Otherwise, we are at the mercy of those who do the programing, the people paying them, or even the technology itself.

Source: Douglas Rushkoff, Program or Be Programmed

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The Cyber Revolution

A new era of production has begun. Its principles of organization are as different from those of the industrial era as those of the industrial era were different from the agricultural. The cybernation revolution has been brought about by the combination of the computer and the automated self-regulating machine. This results in a system of almost unlimited production capacity which requires progressively less human labor. Cybernation is already reorganizing the economic and social system to meet its own needs.

Source: http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/coll/pauling/peace/papers/1964p.7-01.html