future of computing education panel

Future of Computing Education Panel

David Patterson, former ACM President, UC Berkeley, EECS Professor

Tom Murphy, Contra Costa Community College Professor

Josh Paley, HS CS Teacher, Gunn HS in Palo Alto, CA

Eugene Lemon, HS CS Teacher, Ralph Bunche HS in Oakland CA

Michelle Friend Hutton, CSTA President, Middle School CS Teacher @ The Girls’ Middle School in Mountain View, CA

The future of computing education:

what to do

Michelle Friend Huttonmfh@pobox.com

Syllabus

We need a CS teaching credential

Computer Science should be for ALL students

This is not your father’s computer science class

Identify core concepts

How did I get here?

We need a CS teaching credential

Where am I?

Computer Science should be for ALL

students

CS at GMSComprehensive three-year program

6th: intro to CS, robotics (Exploring CS curriculum), HTML

7th: intro to OOP, user-centered web design, databases

8th: data modeling, digitizing data, scheduling

This is not their father’s computer

science class

Identify core concepts

Hint: concepts are nouns, not verbs

Syllabus

We need a CS teaching credential

Computer Science should be for ALL students

This is not your father’s computer science class

Identify core concepts