Presented By: Engineering Education Research
Creating Computing Education Beyond Engineering
Mark Guzdial / University of Michigan
The term “computer science” was invented as something that should be taught to everyone in order to facilitate learning other subjects and to reduce the danger of having a powerful new technology controlled by only a few. Computing education has not become the democratizing force imagined in the 1960’s. Today, computer science has a narrow definition and is mostly about getting a high-paying technology job. If we want to reach the original and more general goal, we have to change how we teach computing and support alternative end-points for computing education. In this talk, I review the history of “computer science” and its earlier purpose. I describe and demonstrate new kinds of languages, approaches, and courses that broaden accessibility to computing education.
This seminar is HYBRID (in-person and via Zoom). Refreshments will be provided if you join us in-person.
This seminar is HYBRID (in-person and via Zoom). Refreshments will be provided if you join us in-person.
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