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New Draft K-12 Model CS Curriculum Available for Comment
The below announcement was posted by Dr. Chris Stephenson, Executive Director of the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), on the SIGCSE-Members list. This is really important — the whole...
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Intercultural Computer Science Education
Thanks to Sarita Yardi for these. Talk about CS Unplugged! Tagged: image of computing
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Wolfram on the importance of computing for understanding the world
Spending too much time in airports lately, I’ve been catching up on some of my TED video watching — the ones that everyone says I have to watch, but I didn’t have time until now. One of those that I...
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No cost for cheerleading or band instead of CS? Offer remedial classes for...
I got beat up a bit after my talk at TTU Tapestry a couple weeks ago. Two teachers from the same school stopped me at lunch, after my keynote, and complained about how we at Georgia Tech run our CS1...
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The Greatest Potential Impact of Computing Education: Performamatics &...
We’ve had Jesse Heines of U. Massachusetts at Lowell visiting with us for the last couple weeks. He gave a GVU Brown Bag talk on Thursday about his Performamatics project — which has an article in...
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We need to produce far more software developers than programmers: How do we...
At the PACE meeting two weeks ago, we heard a presentation from Lauren Csorny, an economist with the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. She did a wonderful job, tailoring the results of the recent 10 year...
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NCWIT Pioneer Awards to two women of Project Mercury: Following their passions
The NCWIT Aspirations Awards have highlighted the achievements of high school women aiming for computing careers. Last night, NCWIT started a new award, the Pioneer Award, given to women who paved the...
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Introducing TryComputing.org: Resources for students and teachers about...
IEEE Computer Society and Educational Activities Board has launched a new website to help students understand computing and what university and career options are out there. There are also teacher...
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How do CS students make educational decisions? Previewing Mike Hewner’s PhD...
Mike Hewner may be the most technically adept student with whom I’ve worked — he’s a former Senior Software Engineer from Amazon. He’s written probably the most intensely qualitative dissertation of...
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Definitions of “Code” and “Programmer”: Response to “Please Don’t Learn to Code”
Audrey Watters’ excellent post on Learning to Code in 2012 pointed me to Jeff Atwood’s piece (linked at the bottom). I want everyone to learn code, so I am in direct contradiction to his position,...
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A few words on Doug Engelbart
Doug Engelbart, visionary whose inventions led to the modern mouse, hypertext, computer-supported collaborative work, died on July 2 at age 88. Bret Victor wrote a wonderful piece about how statements...
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More women nix outdated ‘nerd’ stereotype with single CS class
A fascinating set of studies! (Follow the link below to see the description of the second one.) It reminds me of our GaComputes findings about the importance of early computing experiences for...
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The need to make change in CS course expectations: To my daughter’s high...
I’m teaching a TA preparation course at Georgia Tech this semester. My students are PhD students who are learning how to be teaching assistants. In a session on dealing with classroom behavior and...
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Education Research Questions around Live Coding: Vygotskian and...
I posted my trip report on the Dagstuhl Seminar on Live Coding on Blog@CACM (see the post here). If you don’t want to read the post, check out this video as a fun introduction to live coding: I have a...
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Why are English (and lots of other) majors studying computer science? #CSEdWeek
Ten years ago, professors in computer science departments everywhere wondered how undergraduates from a broad range of fields could be attracted to computer science (CS). We were convinced that this...
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A BBC Broadcast on Computing: The Joy of Logic #CSEdWeek
Not sure how (if?) we can see this in the US, but it sounds really good. A sharp, witty, mind-expanding and exuberant foray into the world of logic with computer scientist Professor Dave Cliff....
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Computer Science Looks Beyond Nerds: Yeah, we still need to say it
The comments from students in the article below from Duke are just like the ones I hear from my students when I ask them how our introductory class is going. “Way better than I expected” and “I thought...
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After Leaving Computing, New Majors Tend to Differ by Gender – CRN
I found these differences fascinating, though I’m not sure what to make of them. Once leaving computing, students head to different majors with a big gender difference. Only 5% of women go into an...
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