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• Stage C: Homework
Here are several options for homework tasks:
- Design a lesson devoted to one of the sorting algorithms.
- Search YouTube for other video clips that may be used by CS teachers
in their teaching.
- Compare types of CSE video clips you found on YouTube.
“
Media Computation
(nicknamed “MediaComp”) is a contextualized approach
to introducing computing using a ubiquitous theme of manipulating media. The
critical characteristic of MediaComp is that students create expressive media by
manipulating computational materials (like arrays and linked lists) at a lower lev-
el of abstraction. Students manipulate images by changing pixels, create sounds
by iterating over samples, render linked lists into music, and create artifacts like
collages, music, and digital video special effects. In so doing, the students learn
computation.”
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The MediaComp approach utilizes the advantages of visualization and animation
in a different way than IDEs, such as the ones described in the previous section.
That is, instead of creating a new visualization- and animation-based development
environment, it uses visual elements of programming languages such as Python or
Java, to teach computer science concepts.
Activity 69: Media Computation
• Option 1:
The MediaComp approach can be addressed in the MTCS course by ask-
ing the students to prepare a teaching unit (see Chap. 11) about an intro-
ductory computer science topic (e.g., loops or two-dimensional arrays)
that uses the media computation approach. While preparing the teaching
unit, the students should be asked to keep reflecting and analyzing their
pedagogical considerations as well as differences between the Computa-
tional Media approach and the traditional approach of computer science
teaching.
• Option 2:
The students can be referred to several textbooks that apply the Media
Computation approach and to The Media Computation Teachers Website,
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which lists these textbooks as well as additional resources.
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Source: http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/mediaComp-teach.
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See http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/mediaComp-teach.
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