Nebraska

Homepage: http://www.nebraska.gov/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nebraskagov

• 37th State (1867)
• Population: ~ 1.8 million (2013)
• Capital: Lincoln, Nebraska
• Largest City: Omaha, Nebraska

Unicameral Legislature

Homepage: http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska_Legislature

Twitter: https://twitter.com/UnicamUpdate

Governor

Homepage: http://www.governor.nebraska.gov/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Nebraska

Chief Information Officer

Homepage: http://www.cio.nebraska.gov/

Nebraska Information Technology Commission

Homepage: http://www.nitc.nebraska.gov/

• http://www.nitc.nebraska.gov/state_gov_council/legislation.html

Ideas

CS as STEM credit for HS graduation

• http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/1tjmd4/high_schools_not_meeting_stem_demand_only_9/ce8nmmx (2013)

  https://westurner.github.io/redditlog/#comment/ce8nmmx

  By incentivizing study of Computer Science with credit for graduation, we may be more likely to meet demand for “One Million Additional College Graduates with Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics”

  • http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-engage-to-excel-final_2-25-12.pdf
  • http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-executive-report-final_2-13-12.pdf
  • http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/fact_sheet_final.pdf

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• “Our nation unites behind computer science”

  “Every student in America should have this opportunity”

  http://blog.code.org/post/143499707508/our-nation-unites-behind-computer-science (2016)

• Hashtag: #CSForAll

  • https://twitter.com/hashtag/CSforAll

See also: Linked Curricula Graphs

What about creating computer games?

• Gamification

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification

• Game Theory

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory

• [ ] Which parts of gaming teach STEM mathematical systems with limits and interaction?

CS skills for STEM fields

• https://wrdrd.github.io/docs/consulting/software-development#computer-science
• U.S. Digital Services Playbook
• Cool Projects

Linked Curricula Graphs

• BeautifulSoup(UNOmaha course catalog HTML) > graph edges (2007)

  • pyglobalgoals Jupyter notebook (BeautifulSoup, requests, JSON-LD, schema.org) (2015)

    pyglobalgoals

• https://westurner.github.io/self-directed-learning/slides.html#knowledge-graph (2012)

• https://westurner.github.io/redditlog/#comment/ci3c1o3 (2014)

• [ ] Link each component of the curriculum to a concept URI (e.g. Wikipedia (-> DBpedia RDF <- http://lod-cloud.net/))

  • RDFa in Course Catalog / Index HTML pages would be helpful
    • “RDFa”: https://wrdrd.github.io/docs/consulting/knowledge-engineering#rdfa
    • schema.org/Course
  • Wikipedia Concept URIs:
    • https://wrdrd.github.io/docs/consulting/data-science
    • https://wrdrd.github.io/docs/consulting/software-development#user-story
    • https://wrdrd.github.io/docs/consulting/knowledge-engineering
    • https://wrdrd.github.io/docs/consulting/education-technology #

schema.org/Course

• [ ] schema.org/Course: https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/195

  • [ ] schema.org/Course PR: https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/pull/972
  • [ ] http://course.schema-course-extend.appspot.com/Course

• [ ] OpenBadges JSON Web Signatures and Schema.org RDFa, JSON-LD:

  https://github.com/openbadges/openbadges-specification/issues/9

OpenBadges

Homepage: http://openbadges.org/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Open_Badges

Standard: https://github.com/openbadges/openbadges-specification

Docs: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges

Twitter: https://twitter.com/openbadges

• [ ] OpenBadges JSON Web Signatures and Schema.org RDFa, JSON-LD:

  https://github.com/openbadges/openbadges-specification/issues/9

OpenBadges Backpack

Homepage: https://backpack.openbadges.org/backpack/

Source: https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges-backpack