CSpathshala core committee meeting
Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/04/2016
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location
TCS Nyati Tiara
Categories
Objective : To deliberate and develop national actionable plan for the next 2 years.
Expected Outcome: Action Plan + Teams
Venue : Executive Board Room, 8th Floor
| Topic | Speaker(s) | |
| 9:30am-9:50am | Registration | |
| 9:50am-10:00am | Welcome & Introductions | Vipul Shah, TCS |
| 10:00am-10:45am | Keynote (Video Call):
Building Communities of Practice
|
Dr. Chris Stephenson, Head of Computer Science Education Programs at Google. Formerly, Executive Director,
Computer Science Teachers Association, USA |
| 10:45am-11:00am | ACM Education Council
Overview CSpathshala: ACM India K-12 CS Education Initiative |
Madhavan Mukund, CMI
Vipul Shah, TCS |
| 11:00am-11:30am | Experience Sharing – I
Session Chair: Chitra Babu |
Rajat Moona, CDAC
Anupam Basu, IIT KGP |
| 11:30am-11:45pm | Tea/Coffee Break |
All |
| 11:45pm-1:15pm | Experience Sharing – II
Session Chair: Neelima Gupta |
Mukesh Kumar, Delhi Public School
Nancy Sehgal, Mata Jai Kaur Public School, Ashok Vihar Rajeev Yelkur, Rishi Valley Bharti Arora, SD Public School, Chandigarh Gurpreet Kaur, G.D.Goenka Public School, Vasant Kunj Richa Verma, KIIT World School, Pitampura Sriram, Mayo College, Ajmer Swana Rawat, DPS Bangalore Premlata Shaji, Cochin Refineries School |
| 1:15 pm-2:30pm | Lunch | All |
| 2:30pm-3:00pm | CS Curriculum | Nikhil Karkare, Walnut School |
| 3:00pm-4:00pm | Break out session to deliberate on top 3 challenges.
– Influence K-12 CS curriculum, – Create curriculum, teaching material … – Upgrade skill of computing teachers – Rural/Urban, regional language – Ensure CS at par with other sciences |
1) Identify significant areas of weakness
2) Differentiate core curriculum and optional topics. |
| 4:00pm-4:30pm | Tea/Coffee Break | All |
| 4:30pm-5:00pm | Action Plan Formulation & Wrap-up | R Venkatesh, TCS |