One of my objectives in taking this course during its first week was that I felt CSTA Washington needed to announce these new standards to the wider Washington CSEd community and beyond.
Even after taking this course, there's just so much in the new standards that I was confounded how to best introduce the standards in a blog post more than pointing them to https://csteachers.org/pk12standards/ and telling them to take this course to better understand what's in these standards.
So I asked AI (ChatGPT and Gemini) to help with the prompt:
I would like to create a blog post about the new computer science standards at https://csteachers.org/pk12standards/ and also uploaded. Could you provide a summary of how the structure and rollout of these standards are different from other recent K-12 academic standards?
The answers supplied by each are informative.
After looking at these, I realized that this will need to be a series of blog posts which will take the pressure off of me to get all of this ready for our August newsletter (Aug 3) I will post links to these as they are completed. Because they are in a CSTAWA blog post that most will not see until later, if you have any questions or comments please let me know.
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Lawrence Tanimoto
Treasurer, CSTA Washington
Bellevue, WA
K-12 Teacher CTE (retired)
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