One exciting feature of the Engineering and Computer Science Essentials curriculum is a set of resources focused on the EiE Habits of Mind. Today, we’ll examine two of those resources: Lesson-Specific Habits and Habits of Mind Discussion Prompts.
Engineering Habits of Mind | EiE Teaching Tips | Create a Generation of Problem Solvers | Computer Science | Tuesday, November 17
Using Habits of Mind in the Classroom
As part of the development of the Engineering and Computer Science Essentials curriculum, the EiE team created the EiE Habits of Mind, a list of 19 practices used by engineers and computer scientists. Today, we’ll look more closely at how this list is useful in the classroom.
Engineering Habits of Mind | Create a Generation of Problem Solvers | Computer Science | Tuesday, November 3
Integrating Engineering and Computer Science with the EiE Habits of Mind
As mentioned in my previous post, Introducing the EiE Habits of Mind, our team faced several questions as we began developing Engineering and Computer Science Essentials: Should we revise our list of Engineering Habits of Mind? Should we create new Computer Science Habits of Mind? Were the two fields similar enough that they should share Habits?
Engineering Habits of Mind | Create a Generation of Problem Solvers | Computer Science | Friday, October 30
Introducing the EiE Habits of Mind
For the EiE team, 2020 featured an important milestone: the publication of Engineering and Computer Science Essentials, our first curriculum to feature computer science. Since we’ve traditionally focused on engineering, the inclusion of this new discipline raised a question: how could we update our “Engineering Habits of Mind”—a set of thought patterns that people use while engineering—so they applied to computer science as well?
Create a Generation of Problem Solvers | Computer Science | Friday, October 9
101 Jobs You Can Have with CS
As we look to the future, career planning for our middle and high school students can feel uncertain and confusing as the job market demands have started to include technologies that didn’t exist years ago. With American Student Assistance’s tool Futurescape, students can take an interactive quiz to see which career paths may interest them in the future.
