{"id":381,"date":"2016-01-20T10:25:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T17:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec\/?p=381"},"modified":"2016-02-03T08:29:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T15:29:19","slug":"computer-coding-added-to-bcs-k-12-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec\/2016\/01\/20\/computer-coding-added-to-bcs-k-12-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer coding added to BC’s K-12 curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the inaugural BC Tech Summit, Christy Clark,the Premier of British Columbia announced that computer coding will be added to the province’s K-12 school curriculum:
\nOpening Keynote
\n<\/a>www.cbc.ca<\/a>
\nwww.vancitybuzz.com<\/a>
\nwww.techvibes.com<\/a>
\nwww.theglobeandmail.com
\n<\/a>www.thestar.com<\/a><\/p>\n

What are some of the difficult questions\u00a0concerning\u00a0BC’s new tech strategy, including: teacher training, backend support, equitable funding for classroom technologies, and the need for government accountability?<\/p>\n

What are the complex ethical, technical, and pedagogical issues associated with the development and implementation of BC\u2019s new\u00a0ADST framework<\/a>?<\/p>\n

How is technology changing the way children think, learn, and focus in school?<\/p>\n

How might we increase student voice and choice in the development of new curriculum? For example, consider\u00a0ISTE<\/a>\u00a0(International Society for Technology Education):\u00a0Student Feedback<\/a>;\u00a0Standards for Students<\/a>\u00a0(7 Standards; 28 Performance Indicators).<\/p>\n

BCIC<\/a>\u00a0(British Columbia Innovation Council)<\/p>\n

Scratch Coding Curriculum Guide<\/a>\u00a0(draft by\u00a0the Scratch Ed Team)<\/p>\n

Computational Thinking<\/a>\u00a0(Wing, 2006)<\/p>\n

Big ideas<\/a> on British Columbia\u2019s redesigned curriculum<\/p>\n

\"Ipad\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the inaugural BC Tech Summit, Christy Clark,the Premier of British Columbia announced that computer coding will be added to the province’s K-12 school curriculum: Opening Keynote www.cbc.ca www.vancitybuzz.com www.techvibes.com www.theglobeandmail.com www.thestar.com What are some of the difficult questions\u00a0concerning\u00a0BC’s new … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,635,279186,34860,472818],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curriculum","category-government","category-media-studies","category-stem","category-technology-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}