The Advantages of Teaching Soft Skills to CS Undergrads Online
On the added value of teaching an online soft skills course to undergrad computer science students.
BLOG@CACM
Advertisement
Technology in the Time of Cataclysms
How is the development of technology, and its more basic cousin science, affected during such cataclysmic times?
Automatic Translators are Not Really Capable of Learning
One does not get the impression the Google Translate and DeepL translation programs are self-learning and have made real progress.
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.
Detecting/Preventing Infections, and Moving Instruction Online
Terrence DeFranco suggests the Internet of Things could be keeping us safer, and Jeremy Roschelle airs issues related to online instruction.
The Virus Analogy and Validation
The comparison between organic viruses and computer viruses is compelling. But why?
The Remote Revolution Has to be Driven by Output, Not Salaries
The unfolding COVID-19 pandemic has thrown us all for a loop and forced countless companies to shutter their offices, warehouses, and everything else. Working remotely works best when you pay people for results, not by the hour. Many companies are still paying their employees salaries and they will find out just how hard it is to motivate an off-site employee when they’re paid the same no matter their output.
Is A (Nearly) Zero-Cost Model Plausible for Science and Engineering Programs?
Is a skill-based, multi-level win-win, and (almost) zero-cost model for undergraduate science and engineering programs in a research university plausible?
The World’s Largest Commercial Cylindrical Slide Rule has a Scale Length of 24m
The world's largest mass-produced cylindrical slide rules come from Loga-Calculator AG in Zurich/Uster, Switzerland.
Best paper awardee at SIGCSE 2020 on the impacts on first-year students of competitive enrollment.
Teaching CS Humbly, and Watching the AI Revolution
Mark Guzdial on a book that changed his thinking about teaching computer science, and Jiajie Zhang on the AI Revolution.
The coronavirus pandemic has once again demonstrated the great vulnerability of social and economic systems to microbes.
Learning Computational Thinking to Dominate the Music Industry
Music can be a context for middle school students to learn about computational thinking and data science. In a game environment, students can play the role in which they analyze data to boost their artist's career. In contrast to many school settings in which students encounter data, a music industry context can be authentic and accessible and can highlight the iterative, cyclical nature of thinking with data,
Computational Thinking or Computational Teamwork?
Computational thinking can sound like "CS-minus." Is there a "CS-plus" that makes CS more attractive and approachable by all?
Contingency Plans for CS Students in Large Classes
Some of our students will get sick before the end of the term. We need a plan.
Teaching Teachers to Offer STEM to Undergrads
Mark Guzdial considers how teaching computing to undergraduates requires better education of the teachers as well.
The combination of AI and cloud infrastructure is changing the roles of certain engineers and creating a new requirement that demands an entirely new engineering specialty.
Powerful Online Learning is a Distributed System
In the midst of a pandemic, universities are now rapidly shifting to online and remote learning. Here, I will suggest a core metaphor for what powerful online learning can look like. The Distributed Systems Metaphor for Online Learning suggests that an instructor should fully engage and connect the students (the processing nodes) to maximize their active effort to elaborate, coordinate and give each other constructive feedback, with a collective goal in mind (i.e., learning more deeply by harnessing cognitive diversity).
The Internet of Things and the Future of Virus Detection and Prevention
Leveraging the Internet of Things in indoor environments could help prevent highly infectious diseases from spreading rapidly in today’s global world.
Shape the Future of Computing
ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are more ways than ever to get involved.
Get InvolvedCommunications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
By opening CACM to the world, we hope to increase engagement among the broader computer science community and encourage non-members to discover the rich resources ACM has to offer.
Learn More