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Education is Always Changing: We Need to Define CS to Keep the Good Stuff
Hype and fashion cycles drive education change. Let's protect the good stuff.
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Programming is For More than Engineering; Computer Science is About More than Building Things
Programming should be part of computing education curriculum, and take into account all the ways students will use computing.
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Finding a Path to CS for All: How Many U.S. High School Students Have Taken CS?
How do we measure progress towards CS for All?
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Major Investments in U.S. CS Education on the Long Road to CS for All
The 2021 CSEdCon featured big investments in growing Computer Science Education in the U.S.
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Students are Interested in People, and Teachers Value Multiple Languages: ICER 2021 Pointers
A couple of excellent papers from the International Computing Education Research conference.
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The Role of Computer Science in Elite Higher Education: Seeing the Expert Blind Spot
CS has an important role in preparing elite scientists, engineers, and mathematicians.
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Why Did We Ever Think the First Programming Language Didn't Matter?
Maybe the first programming language didn't really matter, because students learning programming were different.
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Computing Education Is Not the Same as Engineering Education
Learning Engineering is not always about Becoming an Engineer. Computing Education outside of Engineering Education is bigger than the part inside.
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How I Evaluate a College Computer Science Teaching Record
Teaching is a skill, and the best teachers use the best methods.
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What Liberal Arts and Sciences Students Need to Know About Computing
Defining goals for computing education beyone CS and Informatics offerings.
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Teaching Critical Computing is a Grand Challenge for the Whole CS Curriculum
We need to prepare our students' to have a critical perspective on computing, and that requires changing the curriculum, not just a course.
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Dijkstra Was Wrong About 'Radical Novelty': Metaphors in CS Education
The most cited CS education paper is, unfortunately, wrong.
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Why I Don't Recommend CSRankings.org: Know the Values You are Ranking On
Just because a ranking is computable doesn't mean that it's right.
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Students Need to Know What Success in Computing Looks Like, Starting from Realistic Expectations
Intro CS students sometimes think professional programmers are super-human, which makes it hard to live up to those expectations.
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3 Proposals to Change How We Teach Computing In Order to Reduce Inequality
Computer Science education is inequitable. The least-prepared students are going to be hurt the most in online teaching. We have to make change now.
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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.
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Students Get the Idea They're Unwanted When There Are Enrollment Barriers: Touring the Best of SIGCSE 2020
Best paper awardee at SIGCSE 2020 on the impacts on first-year students of competitive enrollment.
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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.
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Beware of Hurting Our Weakest Students when Moving Classes Online
Our weakest students should not be the ones bearing the greatest costs of moving classes online.
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