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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
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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 Hutton • mfh@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
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
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