Teacher PD
This page will contain information for the Teacher PD course currently under development.
Purpose
This purpose of this PD course is to assist teachers in developing class materials which demonstrate the power and utility of scientific computing. The course content will be largely teacher-driven, with material presented on requested subjects in computing.
Possible topics
The goal of the course is to assist teachers in developing their own content. As such, the teachers themselves will determine the direction of the course. To get started, we list some possible topics below.
- Computational thinking (eg, http://www.google.com/edu/computational-thinking/what-is-ct.html ) is increasingly necessary for understanding a wide range of disciplines, as well as an useful skill set in its own right.
- Applies to simulation, data analysis
- Applies to wide range of disciplines
- Computational thinking skills for educators; best practices in teaching computational skills to students
- Existing simulation/data analysis tools that can be used in discipline-specific classes
- Basic Python programming
- Methods for simulation
- Methods for data analysis
- Technologies for larger-scale computation:
- Clusters - Cluster parallel computing - GPU parallel computing
- Large-scale simulation techniques
- Large-scale data analysis techniques
Some possible topics include: computational thinking, best practices in teaching computational skills to students, existing simulation/data analysis tools that can be used in discipline-specific classes, basic Python programming, techniques for simulation and data analysis, technologies for in-class large-scale computation.
Relevant links
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If you replace ARTICLE with the name of the page you wish to create, you will be taken to a blank page which indicates that no article of that name exists yet. Clicking the "Edit" page tab at the top of the page will take you to the edit page for that article, where you can create the new page by typing your text, and clicking submit.