In this interview with Anne Gunn, we discuss Anne’s background as both a CS professional and educator, thoughts on data analysis for classroom integration (e.g., sonification), implications of understanding CS as a skill rather than a topic, our experience helping develop the Wyoming Computer Science Standards, and other topics relevant to #CSK8 educators.

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How to Get Started with Computer Science Education

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00:00 Intro

01:27 An introduction by Anne

02:47 How Anne became a CS educator

04:52 Framing debugging as a mystery

12:22 An experience in education that continues to impact Anne

14:34 How do you encourage students to find new perspectives?

17:57 What Anne wishes she knew when she first started teaching CS

21:59 How Anne would learn CS today

25:17 Advice for finding integration examples in CS

28:45 What is data sonification?

32:46 What CS educators should understand about industry

39:20 Lessons learned designing CS standards

44:16 How to respond to fear of CS standards

47:30 How Wyoming is helping districts implement CS

55:40 How Anne prevents burnout

58:47 What Anne wishes there was more research on

01:02:02 How to improve your teaching

01:04:15 How to connect with Anne

01:05:33 Outro