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 The Girls’ Middle School in Mountain View, CA
The future of computing education: what to do Michelle Friend Hutton
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 GMS Comprehensive 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