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My name is Jennifer Parham-Mocello, and I’m an assistant professor here at Oregon State University.
The computer science programs in the K-12 community come and go,
and they come and go with budget resources, and they come and go with the teachers
who have the knowledge to be able to teach these courses.
If you can fix the root of that problem and have all of your teachers — before they leave the university —
well-versed in computation, then all of those future teachers going into the classrooms
all have that experience and could either deliver the curriculum as a standalone elective
 
or could infuse it within their current classrooms.
So, our initial steps are to create the modules where we’re pairing together the computer science concepts
with the common core mathematical standards that are used in secondary math courses.
And so we’re currently working on those modules, developing those modules.
We’ll test out those modules, or at least pilot those modules with a few students,
and then further pilot them in the classroom with the future teachers to see how they’re received,
how well received they are by the teachers before going into the actual classrooms with the students.
So, our future plans are to get a larger grant to expand this empirical research pilot
into a bigger program for multiple universities, multiple different courses,
at the university level for our future teachers,
as well as in the actual classroom within the secondary– at the secondary education level.
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