while we're here, let's fix computer science education

While we’re here, let’s fix computer science education

Selena Deckelmannselena@postgresopen.org

Thanks!

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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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Paris Declaration http://bit.ly/MTvxzl

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.

photo: Reuters

Mimiko lost.

Or did he?

Protest filed: May 14, 2007

image courtesy of flickr user bistra1

Adrian Forty, Fingerprint expert

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“olee yen loun sa lo yen.”

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