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CS Teachers, It's (Past) Time To Learn About Race
We need to send the message that we are willing to change CS education in order to address historic and systemic inequities.
From BLOG@CACM
Recursion and Language at ICER 2014: A Conference Report
Recursion and the unique challenges of programming languages were highlighted at ICER 2014
From BLOG@CACM
If You Want to Teach Kids CS, First Teach the Adults
The pathway to CS in schools starts with teaching the adults.
From BLOG@CACM
Why Counting CS as Science or Math Is Not Considered Harmful
On the path to computational literacy for all, we need computing in schools, under whatever category.
From BLOG@CACM
What It Takes to Be a Successful High School Computer Science Teacher
We should not prepare high school CS teachers the way we prepare software developers. Successful CS teachers use different skills.
From BLOG@CACM
The Danger of Requiring Computer Science in K-12 Schools
We are not ready to make CS a requirement for all children in the U.S., even if that's where we want to be one day.
From BLOG@CACM
Programming Languages Are the Most Powerful, and Least Usable and Learnable User Interfaces
Programming languages are amazing, but too hard to use and learn.
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Media Coverage of Analysis of AP CS 2013 Exam Results
Barbara Ericson does an annual analysis of AP CS exam results. Her 2013 analysis attracted significant media attention.
From BLOG@CACM
We May Be 100 Years Behind in Making Computing Education Accessible to All
So when should we be able to provide computing education to everyone in the US? Using physics and mathematics as examples, we may be 100 years behind.
From BLOG@CACM
CSEd Week 2013 Was Amazing!
The "Hour of Code" was a hit, with over 15 million people trying out programming.
From BLOG@CACM
A Summit on Computing Education in South Carolina
A summit of legislators, business leaders, officials from the Department of Education, and teachers convenes in South Carolina to advance computing education in...
From BLOG@CACM
Results From the First-Year Course MOOCs: Not There Yet
The empirical results of first-year MOOCs are in. We're not there yet in terms of retention, learning, or access.
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Trip Report on Dagstuhl Seminar on Live Coding
Live coding is programming performance with generates music for an audience, often in a collaborative setting. It's a jam session on laptops with rich research...
From BLOG@CACM
A Stable Future For Computing Education Requires Collaboration Beyond CS
If you were a superintendent of a big city school district, would you require every school in your district to teach computer science without reliable production...
From BLOG@CACM
What's Our Goal For a CS Degree, and How Do We Know We Got There?
A history of computing suggests that the computer science undergraduate degree is unnecessarily rigorous and may not be achieving the goals we have for it.
From BLOG@CACM
Closing the Computing Labor Shortage with Computing in Schools
Getting more and better computing education into high schools is likely to have a big impact on computing careers.
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Progress on Computing in Schools: 2 Countries, 2 States
Computing is making progress towards becoming a primary and secondary schools subject worldwide. I report on three personal meetings about activities in England...
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The Role of Hypercard in Today's World
HyperCard is an end-user programming tool from the 1990's. A new version that runs on most modern platforms raises the question of the role of end-user programming...
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How to Build on Code.org in Higher Education
The Code.org videos are terrific. What can we be doing in post-secondary education to support the vision?
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Research Questions About MOOCs
Predictions abound on the Internet that MOOCs are about to destroy the university. (Call it, "the MOOCopalypse.") From a stance informed by computing education...
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