Off-line activities and games for all ages
By Tim Bell,
Ian H. Witten and
Mike Fellows
With assistance from Robyn Adams, Jane McKenzie
and Matt Powell
With assistance from Robyn Adams, Jane McKenzie
and Matt Powell
Related Links
If you like "Unplugged" then you may be interested in the following:
- Peter Denning's Great Principles of Computing - developing a framework for computer science as a science and for the sciences. The "Great Principles" complements the Unplugged work because Unplugged is seeking to stimulate young people's curiousity and excitement about computing principles, and we will be striving to cover as many of the principles as we can. .
- Google's Educators' site, which has lots of ideas for teaching, and a free copy of the teachers' Unplugged book for download.
- MathManiacs
- CS4HS (Computer Science for High School) at CMU, UCLA and U Washington.
- National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT)
- TECS (Teacher Enrichment in Computer Science)
- CS4FN (CS for Fun) - run by Queen Mary University of London - several postings each month of CS related material, plus a magazine.
- ETH (Zurich) School education site
- Andrew Begel's work on Kinesthetic Learning for CS - this an excellent site with great ideas. It is very similar to Unplugged but aimed more at university CS classes, and assumes fairly directed/motivated learning for the students.
- The CSTA (Computer Science Teachers Association) repository
- The Purdue outreach program, including their "ROCS" (Reach Out for Computer Science) program which has an excellent presentation done by students to schools, and some useful links. csi.dcs.gla.ac.uk
- Glasgow's Computer Science Inside (CSI) program
- The Center for Discrete Maths and Theoretical Computer Science at Rutgers has an education site including K-12 material.
- Integrating Mathematical Reasoning into Computer Science Curricula
- Peter Henderson's "Math counts" column
- The "Discrete Mathematics for K-8 teachers" material
- The MSDN Academic Alliance Community Center - A community for technical educators, especially Pat Phillips' blog on school computing education.
- Alfred Thompson,Computer Science Academic Relations Manager for Microsoft, has a blog on teaching computer science at K-12 level
- Mathcasts - observe other teachers teaching
- Wikiversity is a Wikipedia related site with lesson plans.
- The International Olympiad in Informatics is "The premier world-wide high school informatics (computer science) competition". This is primarily a programming competition; it is one of several UNESCO academic Olympiads.
- The MegaMath project has some early "Unplugged" activities and some mathematically related ideas.
- Edutopia is a George Lucas educational foundation sponsored site with ideas and innovation in education.
- Michael Twidale and Dave Nichol's work on "Computational Sense"
- Matt Carlson has a series of videos about science (mainly physics) experiments that have some great examples of fun science videos - by coincidence, he also has a "games unplugged" blog.
- The Imaginative Education Research Group takes a new approach to education.
- Phil Tulga's music and maths web site isnt directly related, but has a lot of kinesthetic ideas that could be adapted for Unplugged.
- Some of the "Unplugged" material is being distributed in cooperation with the Humanity Libraries Project.
- MathMania
- A fun animation of old and new disk technologies
- CS Mythbusters - information about the realities of outsourcing and job opportunities in CS
- See also: http://acm.org/education/ http://www.computer.org/portal/site/ieeecs/menuitem.c5efb9b8ade9096b8a9ca0108bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=ieeecs_level1&path=ieeecs/education&file=index.xml&xsl=generic.xsl&;jsessionid=F19v0Q2d5lPF1VyPpMGLSPMPpM2LQW8rGdpgNnshGRn8NFPfhtvd!-1505330158 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pattis/quotations.html http://techcorps.org/ http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/csed/academic/related.html