TECH
ACM Education Council : Technology that Educators of Computing Hail (TECH)
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The judicious use of technology in computing education (in and out of the classroom) can be empowering and transformative. However, it is very difficult to find out what technologies are available, where they have been adopted and how successful that adoption has been. The ACM Education Council hopes this site can address this and serve as a central, searchable, organized collection of links of teaching resources. Our intended audience is computing educators at all levels – grade school through university. The real value comes from its web 2.0 user-driven tagging, search, rating and commentary. We cluster all technologies into topics, and divide the topics into two categories: those used in class and those used outside of class. For most of the resources, we present a discussion page with more details about the technology and an opportunity to share experiences with other educators. Here are our topics:
In Class
- Basics
- Presentation Software
- Tablets for Presentation
- Classroom Response "Clickers"
- Program and Algorithm Visualization
- Video Lectures & Podcasts
- Free Web Videoconferencing Software
- Sans-Computer Activities
- Understanding the Limitations of Technology
Outside of Class
- Introductory Programming Instruction
- Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)
- Project Inspiration & Cool Datasets
- Robots
- Curriculum Repositories
- Anti-Plagiarism Software
- Course Management Systems
- Grades and Submissions Management
- Utility Computing for Virtual Labs
- Other Technology Resources