while we're here, let's fix computer science education
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50% growth incomputer-related jobs
by 2018
70% of FOSS devs have at least a Bachelors
degree
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ModelingGuided Practice
Independent PracticeGeneralization
Lost 35% of CS courses offered 9-12 grade in the USA since 2005
“In 2008, 17% of AP computer science test takers were women, even though women represented 55% of all AP test takers. 784 African American students nationwide took the AP CS exam.”
Computational thinking
“A way that humans, not computers, think. Computational thinking is a way humans solve problems; it is not trying to get humans to think like computers. Computers are dull and boring; humans are clever and imaginative. We humans make computers exciting. Equipped with computing devices, we use our cleverness to tackle problems we would not dare take on before the age of computing and build systems with functionality limited only by our imaginations.”-Jeanette Wing
Today’s world
Teachersin
Schools
Open SourceContributors
Teacher/open source
collaborationon lessons
Open source IT in schools is not the answer, right now.
ModelingGuided Practice
Independent PracticeGeneralization
Access tocomputer science is a
social justice issue.
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Protest filed: May 14, 2007
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