Storytelling with Alice

A Computing Curriculum for IEFA + CS

What is The Alice Stortelling Curriculum?

The storytelling project spans five departments at Montana State University, and involves undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, postdoctoral researchers, staff, and K-12 teachers throughout Montana. Our objective is to expose middle school students to basic computer science, and increase the accessibility of computer science throughout Montana.

See the Lesson Plans

This curriculum is developed as part of a grant in the the Storytelling Project. For information about the ITEST grant which developed this curriculum please see, the ITEST grant page.

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Broadening Participation

Our lessons use physical computing with textiles that are embedded with electronics and then programmed by students. Because many teachers and students believe that computing is difficult, these novel approaches enable more broad access to computer science. They have been shown to not only engage students and teachers in rigorous computing, but also to make computing fun.

Join Storytelling

Here you can subscribe or unsubscribe to our Storytelling listserv. This listserv is not a community server or discussion group where people can respond to members, but only for periodic announcements and information coming from the Storytelling project. Email frequency is approximately once per month.

Land Acknowledgement

We acknowledge that Montana State University and the schools we work with are on the ancestral lands of American Indians, including the A’aninin (Gros Ventre), Amskapi/Piikani (Blackfeet), Annishinabe (Chippewa/Ojibway), Annishinabe/Métis (Little Shell Chippewa), Apsáalooke (Crow), Ktunaxa/Ksanka (Kootenai), Lakota, Dakota (Sioux), Nakoda (Assiniboine), Ne-i-yah-wahk (Plains Cree), Qíispé (Pend d’Oreille), Seliš (Salish), and Tsétsêhéstâhese/So’taahe (Northern Cheyenne). Through our work with Montana students and teachers, we honor and respect these twelve tribal nations that call Montana home today, by drawing inspiration from the stories of these communities whose oral histories embody this land.