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Title: The Beauty, the Wonder and the Awe of Computing


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The Beauty, the Wonder and the Awe of Computing
  • Chris Stephenson

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Chris Five Ideas for Motivating Students
  • An enthusiastic and engaged teacher
  • A connection to student lives, realities, and
    dreams
  • A curriculum that is not boring (too much syntax
    is a very bad thing)
  • Innovative teaching methodologies
  • Good teaching tools (why do we think industrial
    relevance is a good criteria for teaching?)

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Chris Five Ideas for Motivating Teachers
  • Understand the environment in which they work
  • Give them the resources they need to do their
    jobs
  • Provide a wide range of teaching and learning
    materials to address a wide array of experience,
    knowledge, and skill (the Alan example)
  • Be much more consistent about what we want and
    need from them
  • Treat/pay them like professionals

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Chris Five Favorite Teaching Methodologies
  • Project-based learning (a constructivist approach
    )
  • Real-world/authentic learning (from a
    learner-centered epistemology)
  • Group work with an emphasis on so called soft
    skills
  • Service learning
  • Integrated/interdisciplinary learning

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Chris Five Favorite New Curriculum Approaches
  • 3-D programming environments
  • Media computation
  • Computer gaming
  • Robotics
  • Computational thinking (if they could only tell
    me what this really means for a K-12 CS course)

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Wonder and Awe vs. Shock and Awe
  • Shock
  • Beating them to death with syntax
  • Programming, programming, programming
  • No relevance to what you are or who you care
    about
  • No big dreams, big goals, or unexplored frontiers
  • Wonder
  • Our discipline is more than rules and tools
  • Incorporating and exploring the rich breadth of
    the discipline
  • CS is solving problems that matter to people and
    communities
  • We dont even know all the questions yet, let
    alone all the answers
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