Programming for Teachers

  • Programming for Teachers

    …learn about programming in C language and how you can incorporate it into your classroom!

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Programming for Teachers

  • Based in Valdez
  • Students in this course will learn programming using the C language
  • Develop place-based, culturally responsive knowledge, awareness, and practical skills

Place Based Activities May Include:

  • Building a binary counter
  • Linking Indigenous knowledge and technology to the engineering design model

Dates, Location, and Contact

Dates: May 21-27, 2022

Credits: 3

Location: Valdez

Contact: Katie Bobowski, 907-822-3673 or ksbobowski@alaska.edu

Instructor: Dr. Steve Johnson

  • What to expect
    • Learn to code using the C language. 
    • Basic understanding of the computing machine.
    • Incorporate Indigenous knowledge and community history into your lessons.
  • What will you get

    All students will develop a place-based lesson plan or unit to use in their own classroom. All of the lesson plans developed will be put into an online database that will be made available to all students for adaptation and use in their classroom.

  •  Why should you come
    • Gives teachers the ability to reconnect to and re-energize their passion for teaching.
    • Mixes classroom activities with place-based/outdoor activities, which asks the teachers to not only consider their curriculum, but to also consider their classroom.
    • Collaborative workshop activities allow STEM teachers to meet and network with other educators who are living through the same experience.
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 Meet The Instructor

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Dr. Steve Johnson

Dr. Steven W. Johnson is an Associate Professor of Computing/Information Technology at Prince William Sound College. He has been a full-time faculty for the University of Alaska for 10 years, including four years of teaching experience at Kuskokwim Campus in Bethel, Alaska. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Business, completed an NCATE-approved teacher preparation program, and earned his master’s degree in Training and Learning Technologies at the University of New Mexico. He has also completed the necessary coursework for a master’s degree in Special Education and a master’s degree in Educational Leadership at the University of New Mexico. His doctorate is in Information Technology and he specializes in e-commerce and mobile application development.  Dr. Johnson brings the teaching and learning experiences he acquired in Bethel, Napakiak, Alakanuk, and Kotlik to the instructional team, along with an extensive background in a variety of educational needs and settings.

Partners:

National Science Foundation