{"id":1267,"date":"2015-12-31T08:38:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T13:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2015-12-31T08:38:21","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T13:38:21","slug":"change-is-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"Change is Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) had just release new draft standards for<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doe.mass.edu\/boe\/docs\/fy2016\/2015-12\/item6.html\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Literacy and Computer Science<\/a>.\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>These, if adopted, will replace the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doe.mass.edu\/frameworks\/current.html\" target=\"_blank\">current standards<\/a> adopted in 2008.\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>ISTE is also undergoing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iste.org\/explore\/articleDetail?articleid=514&amp;category=Solutions&amp;article=\" target=\"_blank\">refresh<\/a> in the standards draft standards should be released in Jan 2016. It will be interesting to see what changes will be made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I am excited to see the addition of computational thinking and computer science.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I strongly believe these are necessary for success in our modern economy particularly in Massachusetts. \u00a0DESE partnered with <a href=\"http:\/\/masscan.edc.org\" target=\"_blank\">MassCAN<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masscue.org\/pages\/MassCUE\" target=\"_blank\">MassCUE<\/a> to develop these standards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The new standards are divided into 4 strands:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Computing and Society<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\">Safety and Security<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Ethics and Laws<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Interpersonal and Societal Impact<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Digital Tools and Collaboration<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p3\">Digital Tools<\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\">Collaboration and Communication<\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\">Research<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Computing Systems<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p3\">Computing Devices<\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\">Human and Computer Partnerships<\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\">Networks<\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\">Services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Computational Thinking<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p3\">Abstraction<\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\">Algorithms<\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\">Data<\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\">Programming and Development<\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\">Modeling and Simulation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\">The previous standards are heavy on ethics, safety, research and basic application use.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The draft standards add computer science and computational thinking.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Many of these standards can be infused within the general curriculum but as you get to the 9-12 standards it seems more difficult to integrate into existing courses. If districts are to truly implement the computer science and programing standards then additional computer science course would need to be added at the HS level. Massachusetts does not offer a computer science license so who would teach these courses?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I have heard discussion that those with a Math, Science or Instructional Technology licenses would likely fill the need. As computer science classes become wide spread I would think creating a teaching license for CS would be desirable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">What do you think about the new standards?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) had just release new draft standards for\u00a0Digital Literacy and Computer Science.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0These, if adopted, will replace the current standards adopted in 2008.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ISTE is also undergoing a refresh in the standards draft standards should be released in Jan 2016. It will be interesting to see what changes will be made. I am excited to see the addition of computational thinking and computer science.\u00a0 I strongly believe these are necessary for success in our&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1267\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,27,131],"tags":[158,210],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}