Let’s Teach Malware When It’s Ready: The Purpose of Undergrad CS
Ledin's call for teaching malware to all undergraduate students conflicts with my understanding of the purpose of an undergraduate CS degree.
Mark Guzdial
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A series of recent reports claim the U.S. education system is in a very severe crisis; others suggest the crisis is "overblown." An explanation that satisfies these differing claims is that we are educating large numbers of students, but not well enough to address future needs.
Peer Instruction For Seeing What Students Know (and Don’t)
Peer Instruction is an important pedagogical approach that is promoted by physics education researchers. I'm trying it for the first time in my CS class, and it's giving me new insight into my students.
We’re Too Late For ‘First’ in CS1
By the time students get to undergraduate CS1, they already have lots of ideas about computation. Objects, hardware, breadth, functions first--none of that really matters. There is no more "first" in CS1.
Security Advice; Malvertisements; and CS Education in Qatar
Greg Linden discusses security advice and the cost of user effort, Jason Hong considers the increase in malvertisements, and Mark Guzdial writes about gender and CS education in Qatar.
Computer Science as Value Added to a Liberal Education
Computer science education is valuable, even to those who do not major in computer science. Those non-CS major informants who talk about that value are doing us a great service.
When a Crisis Doesn’t Look Like a Crisis
Do we have a crisis in U.S. STEM (and particularly) CS education or don't we? It could be that all the commentators are right, and the problem is too few of the right kinds of graduates.
Computer Science Needs Education Schools. Desperately.
Improving high-school computer science in the United States is critical for the success and growth of computing education. To do that, we need teachers. To get teachers, we need Education schools.
Can the U.S. Afford Universities Focusing on Research Over Teaching?
The American University system is increasingly turning toward research and away from teaching. The result is higher costs, and we can get quality education without the research programs.
Tell Me a Story: Join the Effort to Collect Teacher Stories
Sally Fincher wants your stories about being a teacher, every month for a year, to figure out how to improve teaching and learning.
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