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Equipping students for success in a changing society ...

Learn how to prepare students with technical competence for a tech-driven future. Understand the importance of computer programming skills and the impact of images on career choices.

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Equipping students for success in a changing society ...

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  1. Equipping students for success in a changing society ... Maria M. Klawe Dean of Science NSERC-IBM Chair for Women in Science and Engineering for BC and the Yukon The University of British Columbia

  2. Three thank yous • Doubling the opportunity • Unfreezing tuition • Investing in university research • KDF, Indirect costs, Leadership chairs

  3. Forces of change • Globalization • Cultural diversity • Technology (info-nano-bio)

  4. Info Tech competence: what every student needs to be able to do • Learn to use new tools effectively for • finding information • communicating • modelling and analysis • creating or designing • exploring ideas and solving problems • Contribute to creating new tools • Understand the impact of technological changes and choices

  5. Why it matters • skilled work force • career opportunities • choosing how technology shapes our future

  6. Curriculum change • Understanding computer programming concepts - something every student needs

  7. Why? • basic tool in 21st century • part of understanding our world • confidence in using computers • to make good use of applications • summer jobs

  8. How? • Integrate simple programming activities in grade 4-7 subjects (science, socials, math) • sims • logo, squeak, etc. • Make an IT course with programming mandatory in grade 8 or 9

  9. Challenges • Providing in-service and pre-service courses for teachers • access to computers • what gets taken out of grade 8 or 9

  10. We need to do more than just change our curriculum

  11. Images influence career choices ...

  12. TV doctor image Thin, smart, rich sexy important AND saveslives

  13. TV computer scientist image thin, smart, rich pale, thick glasses no life Bill Gates

  14. Images influence career choices What girl in her right mind would want to be a computer scientist? What boy in his right mind would want to be a computer scientist?

  15. Some rough numbers • 1300 start first year science at UBC • 800 want to be doctors (major in biology), 55% women • 200 want to be computer scientists, 20% women

  16. Four years later at graduation, of the 800 biology majors ... • 50 get into medical school • 250 go into another biology/health career • 500 wish they’d studied something else (e.g. computer science)

  17. Four years later at graduation, of the 200 CS majors ... • 175 get fantastic jobs in information technology • 25 go to graduate school

  18. The good news? • The Doubling the Opportunity initiative will let many more BC students study computer science and computer engineering! • But we still need to change the image

  19. confidence • Anyone can learn to… • do math • program a computer • communicate effectively • ballroom dance • Confidence, goals and hard work matter more than talent

  20. computers • We are on the verge of a revolution in classroom learning • I am biased [Silicon Chalk]

  21. Imagine being in a class where: • every student has a networked laptop • works anywhere (no wires or hubs needed) • class recording • integrating notes, audio, slides, whiteboard • multi-way feedback (pace, class response) • (collaborative) do, demo, discuss • teacher in control of which applications are accessible on each laptop

  22. Best Investment? • Give a laptop to every teacher who wants one

  23. Take home messages • Everyone needs technical competence and understanding • Everyone is capable of getting IT • Confidence, setting goals and hard work is all it takes • Thank you x 3

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