CS integration into Science Curriculum
- DPSCD will purchase WeDo robots for 3rd-grade classrooms to use in our current science curriculum (see link https://elearning.legoeducation.com/wedo-2-0)
- Project-based exploratory learning will be embedded into our 3rd-5th-grade science curriculum that includes programming robots
- Next year, funding will be used to buy robots for all 4 and 5th-grade classrooms.
- 100% of High School offering Computer Science Courses by 2019
- Regional partner Code.org helped DPSCD train 10 new Computer Science Principles (CSP) teachers this past summer
- DPSCD has created, and supports, a PLC group for new CSP teachers
- TEALS is providing volunteers and co-teachers
Increase Robotics Clubs
- Robotics programs exist in most DPSCD schools
- DCPS, Quicken Loans, First Robotics, and Robot Garage are offering funding assistance and mentors for our new teams
- DPSCD Computer Science for All Goals:
- DPSCD will integrate Computer Science into traditional Science curriculum for all K-5 classrooms — starting in 3rd grade in 2018 and scaling to all grade levels by 2021
- DPSCD will pilot one new kindergarten class focusing on Computer Science as a science in 2018.
- By 2021 all elementary classrooms will have embedded computer science curriculum in science.
- Training science teachers to integrate Computer Science:
- Begin with all the 3rd-grade teachers in 2018
- Gather data to see if we increase Science content knowledge by using robots and CS
- The key objective for DPSCD CSforAll is to give every student the opportunity to learn computer science every day in their classrooms
Computer Science in Michigan Facts:
- Michigan currently has 13,930 open computing jobs (4.1 times the average demand rate in Michigan)
- The average salary for a computing occupation in MI is $80,478, which is significantly higher than the average salary in the state ($47,350)
- The existing open jobs alone represent a $1,121,058,540 opportunity in terms of annual salaries
- Michigan had only 1,793 computer science graduates in 2015; only 16% were female
- Universities in Michigan only graduated 6 new teachers prepared to teach computer science in 2016.