Experimenting with and integrating Alice 2.3 into many disciplines (abstract only)

This interactive workshop will present the new features of Alice 2.3, and show how to integrate Alice 2.3 into multiple disciplines in middle school and high school. Participants will get hands-on experience with working with new Alice models and creating Alice projects. The workshop will also review curriculum materials and discuss mapping Alice to CSTA computer science standards. The curriculum materials presented could be used in middle school or high school in a variety of disciplines, or in college in a pre-CS 1 course. The target audience is middle school and high school teachers, and college faculty providing outreach to K-12 or teaching a pre-CS 1 course. Alice is available for free at www.alice.org. Curriculum materials are available at www.cs.duke.edu/csed/alice/aliceInSchools and at www.alice.org. Laptop required, and two-button mouse recommended.