O-4/O-14(7-12)
CS (COMPUTER SCIENCE) FOR NON-GEEKS AND THE REST OF US
Kenny Hunt, Dave Riley, Thomas Gendreau & Eric Brunsell all of UW-La Crosse
hunt.kenn@uwlax.edu
riley@cs.uwlax.edu
genreau@cs.uwlax.edu
brunsell.eric@uwlax.edu     
  

This workshop consists of a series of activities that present fundamental concepts from computer science in a manner that is engaging and accessible to math, science and tech ed teachers.  The activities include fun class experiments involving robots, digital images, how to protect computers from hackers, data and data sorting algorithms and the intrinsic limits of computing (computers can't do everything).

These activities have been extensively class tested with students from a wide range of backgrounds and can be easily adapted to middle and high school curricula.  A great workshop to help you stay ahead of your kids!

Objectives:

	Be able to translate decimal numbers to binary and binary to decimal
	Know the relative sizes of byte, kilobyte, megabyte, terabyte, and petabyte
	Understand that data has alternative forms (numeric, textual, code, image, sound)
	Understand the nature of software development as a problem solving activity
	Understand the distinction between sequential and concurrent execution
	Understand the role of compilers and the separation of program compilation from program execution
	Be able to analyze  a Boolean expression involving the operations of NOT, AND, OR, IMPLIES and EQUIVALENCE
	Be able to express a factual English sentence in the form of propositional logic