User:Parlierm

2023 Summer Milestones

• Read and analyze the Compact Report and beginnings of the Wisconsin Landscape Report.
• Become more familiar with the CS Fundamentals and ECS Curricula
• Read over ECS Curricula and find creative ways to make it more inclusive and culturally responsive.
• Synthesize toolkit information from the ECEP Website.
• Create a condensed/focused list of information and write-ups needed for the Wisconsin ECEP Alliance Landscape Report.
• Look into the formatting tool for the Landscape Report and begin placing pieces of the Landscape Report into the format suggested by ECEP.
• Determine what additional information and data is needed to complete the Wisconsin Landscape Report and begin acquiring the additional data.

2023 Week 1: (May 30th 2023-June 2nd 2023)

Tuesday (5/30)

• Met with Dr. Praveen about logistics and meeting other students involved in the REU.
• Met with Dr. Brylow and other REU students on my specific team for the summer, learning about the various projects on hand.
• Worked with IT to get accounts set up for the summer.
• Looked at Landscape reports for California and its formatting, Dashboard for Alabama, and basic research on the ECEP.
  • ECEP Landscape Reports: https://ecepalliance.org/resources/toolkits-guides/landscape-reports/
  • Data Dashboards: https://ecepalliance.org/cs-data/state-data-dashboards/
  • ECEP Article Joining States: https://ecepalliance.org/news/2023/04/25/ecep-welcomes-seven-new-states/
• Worked through some of the Pre-School CS Fundamentals on Code.org
  • CS Fundamentals Website: https://code.org/educate/csf

Wednesday (5/31)

• Read up on, watched videos, and took notes about CS terminology, learning about what the broader idea of the field really is.
• Took notes on the visualizations used in the Alabama dashboard from ECEP and glanced at the other states.
• Attended the all-group meeting with Dr. Brylow about research techniques and helpful tips and tricks for getting started/researching/digging deeper.
• Met with research team for CS Education and determined which projects we were going to be taking on, determining next steps.
  • I'll be gathering and synthesizing factors of other states' Landscape Reports, seeing what does and doesn't work, and then comparing that data to what we have in Wisconsin.
  • Additionally, I was given many articles to get me going on my research of CS Education.
• I combed through the Kapor Center Article on Culturally Responsive Teaching in Computer Science, taking notes on key pieces of information and connecting what was written to previous knowledge of CRT.
  • Kapor Center Article: https://www.kaporcenter.org/culturally-responsive-sustaining-computer-science-education-a-framework/

Thursday(6/1)

• Wrote up notes and found links from Days 1 and 2 and sent emails to schedule a meeting for today with team members who also read the Kapor Center article.
• Met with Sujeeth to talk about ways I can help conduct research this summer, potential research projects and lists of things to look into.
• Wrote up my milestone checklist with preliminary research on the topics.
• Created/updated my Wiki page for the rest of the summer.
• Began thinking about ways to organize information Sujeeth is looking for.

Friday(6/2)

• I began the RCR Training, making it through the first session and then some, and finishing up the training over the weekend.
• Met with Dr. Brylow to discuss the ITISCE Article entitled "Intercultural Computer Science Education" and spoke about goals for the summer (among various CSE topics).
  • Link to ITISCE Article: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2591708.2591744
• Started doing some research on the algorithms presented in the article chosen, and started looking up the CSE Teacher Resource, the Adafruit Circuit Playground.

2023 Week 2: (June 5th 2023-June 9th 2023)

Monday (6/5)

• Attended the all-group RCR Training with Dr. Brylow all morning and afternoon.
• Researched and took notes on the "Intercultural Computer Science Education" article, and created a presentation to present the findings tomorrow to my small research group.

Tuesday (6/6)

• Finalized research presentation for "Intercultural Computer Science Education" article.
• Met with other REU students and checked in on how their work was progressing.
• Presented the "Intercultural Computer Science Education" article.
• Researched the Adafruit Circuit Playground to present about tomorrow as as CSE Teacher Resource.
  • Adafruit Circuit Playground Link:https://www.adafruit.com/product/3000
  • Circuit Instructions/Tour:https://learn.adafruit.com/circuit-playground-lesson-number-0/intro
  • Potential Projects to Code: https://makecode.adafruit.com/examples, https://learn.adafruit.com/category/circuit-playground-projects

Wednesday (6/7)

• Began reviewing ECEP Landscape Toolkit--synthesizing information from the document for further use.
  • Link to ECEP Landscape Report Toolkit: https://ecepalliance.org/resources/toolkits-guides/landscape-report-toolkit/
• Attended Dr. Brylow's talk on Good Research Presentations and Writing.
• Finalized presentation on a K-5 teacher resource for my research group.
• Continued working through the ECEP Landscape Toolkit.

Thursday (6/8)

• Kept reading through the ECEP Landscape Toolkit and took notes.
• Attended a group meeting about K-5 Teacher Resources and presented my resource.
• Met with Sujeeth about progress on the ECEP Landscape Toolkit and future directions to take this in writing the Landscape Report for Wisconsin.

Friday (6/9)

• Corresponded with Sujeeth about plans for next week in terms of meeting and continuing research.
• Read through the rest of the ECEP Landscape Report Toolkit.
• Finished taking notes on the Toolkit that I then sent to Sujeeth to look over.

2023 Week 3: (June 12th 2023-June 16th 2023)

Monday (6/12)

• I read over a research paper entitled "Constructivism in Computer Science Education" and synthesized the reading.
  • Link to Article on Constructivism in CS: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/274790.274308
• Created a presentation with my citation to present to my research group tomorrow.
• Corresponded with Sujeeth about meeting tomorrow to talk about the Landscape Report Toolkit.
• Read through half of the teacher lesson plans and ideas from the Google Doc sent to my research group from Dr. Brylow and took notes on the ones I read over.
  • Link to the Google Doc: in my inbox from Dr. Brylow

Tuesday (6/13)

• Continued looking over the teacher Project FUTURE Lesson Plans for incorporating CS into their classrooms and took notes on what they were looking for.
• Met with Sujeeth about the Landscape Toolkit Notes I took, and made a list of other things I should be reading and looking at this week. We then also talked about the ECS meeting from Monday and about strategizing for incorporating another topic into the ECS curriculum.
• Met with my research group and Dr. Brylow to present our research paper from the previous week, and talked about the upcoming Milwaukee Teacher CS Workshop next week and logistics for the Connecticut trip in 2 weeks.
  • Week 3 Research Paper on Constructivism Link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/274790.274308

Wednesday (6/14)

• Finished reading all the teacher Lesson Plan ideas and finished taking notes on them.
• Went back in the Landscape Toolkit notes I took and highlighted the information Sujeeth will need to go back and put data in for in that document.
• Attended the weekly REU meeting with a presentation from Dr. Praveen.
• Finished highlighting notes for Sujeeth, and then began reading and taking notes on the Capacity Report from Sujeeth.
  • Capacity Report Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRsar_JiNR42LAOUiulLn9zXcNhX_fdHaX4z4ZjCuaDIMqklV5XjhABIAoBsx-v0CKkQcRH768K52rz/pub (Note: it's from the PUMP-CS Wisconsin Website)

Thursday(6/15)

• Finished reading the Capacity Report and taking notes. Sent the notes over to Sujeeth to read over.
• I worked on connecting and programming the Adafruit Circuit Playground Express on my computer--following the step-by-step instructions from the Adafruit Website.
  • Adafruit Set-up Website: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-circuit-playground-express/set-up-arduino-ide
• I played around with the circuit and trouble-shot problems I had with the Arduino IDE program on my computer.

Friday(6/16)

• I played with the Adafruit Circuit Playground on my family's Chromebook.
• Created my portion of the Technology Tools Presentation for Monday.
• Attended a team meeting about the trip to Connecticut.
• Continued playing around with the Circuit Playground, learning how to program online through the simulator, on the Block-based site, and through the Arduino IDE.

2023 Week 4: (June 19th 2023-June 23rd 2023)

Monday (6/19)

• Finished looking over and running through my portion of the presentation for the afternoon with the MPS teachers.
• Looked for and found the next research article to present to my research group.
  • Week 4 Research Article on Internationalization of CSE: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1734263.1734404
• Listened to my fellow research-mates' tools and presented the Adafruit Circuit Playground to the MPS teachers, and answered any questions they had about the product.
• Updated my Wiki Page and continued reading my article on Internationalization of CSE.
• Began looking in to other states' Landscape Reports--taking notes on them to answer questions from Sujeeth and my conversation last week regarding the Landscape Report Toolkit.

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2023 Week 8: (July 17th 2023-July 21st 2022)

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2023 Week 9: (July 24th 2023-July 28th 2023)

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2023 Week 10: (July 31st 2023-August 4th 2023)

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