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CS4HS@Sydney

CS4HS@Sydney. Professor David Lowe Associate Dean (Education) / Professor of Software Eng . Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies The University of Sydney. CS4HS. Welcome!

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CS4HS@Sydney

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  1. CS4HS@Sydney Professor David LoweAssociate Dean (Education) / Professor of Software Eng.Faculty of Engineering and Information TechnologiesThe University of Sydney

  2. CS4HS Welcome! • “CS4HS is an initiative sponsored by Google to promote Computer Science and Computational Thinking in high school and middle school curriculum … These workshops incorporate informational talks by industry leaders, and discussions on new and emerging CS curricula at the high school and middle school level.” • http://www.cs4hs.com/

  3. CS4HS Why is CS / SE / IS / ICT Education Important? • We have: • Australian UG students enrolled in ICT degrees – declined by 50% over the last decade. • ICT is one of the bottom two general discipline areas with respect to attracting high achieving school leavers (ATAR > 90) into tertiary study. • ICT is one of the top two discipline areas with respect to admitting low achieving students (ATAR < 50) into tertiary study. • Less than 50 per cent of ICT professionals possess a degree level qualification in ICT. • And yet: • Australia’s digital economy is valued at over $100 billion • The ICT industry and profession contributes almost 8 per cent of GDP. • http://www.acs.org.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/9302/ACARA-Draft-Shape-of-the-Australian-Curriculum_Technologies_June-2012.pdf

  4. CS4HS What do we do about it? • Education • Teacher development:e.g. UK “Teach First” program: Google sponsorship of outstanding ICT graduates to become teachers. • Curriculum renewal:e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16493929 • Student motivation:e.g. Raspberry Pi? • http://acce.edu.au/ict-and-australian-curriculum • http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/data/uploads/ICT%20and%20CS%20joint%20statement.pdf

  5. CS4HS Agenda Thursday Visual Programming / Context Free GrammarsInformation Visualization and Winner-­take all algorithmNCSS Challenge & Programming in PythonTeaching IT Concepts Through Web ProgrammingComputers are Dumb, People are CreativePhysics and Maths in Programming?Careers Panel Friday Computation in the data stream modelMulticore programmingMotif FindingLab Demos: Robots / Tabletops / BiomedSurveyLightning talksWrap-up

  6. Online Education Threat or Opportunity CEO, The Labshare InstitutePresident, Global Online Laboratory ConsortiumGeneral Chair, REV2013 Conference Professor David LoweAssociate Dean (Education) / Professor of Software Eng.Faculty of Engineering and Information TechnologiesThe University of Sydney

  7. Are we using technology effectively? c2010 class c1350 class(Laurentius de Voltolina)

  8. Education vs Learning What is the difference between e-Learning and online Education? From OED Online… • Education: • culture or development of personal knowledge or understanding, growth of character, moral and social qualities, etc., as contrasted with the imparting of knowledge or skill. • The systematic instruction, teaching, or training in various academic and non-academic subjects given to or received by a child, typically at a school; the course of scholastic instruction a person receives in his or her lifetime. Also: instruction or training given to or received by an adult • Learning • The action of receiving instruction or acquiring knowledge; spec. in Psychol., a process which leads to the modification of behaviour or the acquisition of new abilities or responses, and which is additional to natural development by growth or maturation; • Knowledge, esp. of language or literary or historical science, acquired by systematic study;

  9. Online Education Is education changing? Is learning changing? • Significant area of research • Loss of analytical skills ? • Loss of synthesis skills? • Gain in knowledge integration skills? • Enhancement in broad knowledge frameworks? • … • But where to from here?

  10. Online learning • Will it affect us? • How will it affect us?

  11. Horizon report Technology Outlook for STEM+ Education 2012-2017 • Time-to-Adoption: One Year or Less Cloud ComputingCollaborative EnvironmentsMobile AppsSocial Networking • Time-to-Adoption: Two to Three Years Augmented RealityLearning AnalyticsMassively Open Online CoursesPersonal Learning Environments • Time-to-Adoption: Four to Five Years Collective IntelligenceInternet of ThingsNatural User InterfacesWearable Technology • http://www.nmc.org/publications

  12. Technology and Labs For the things we have to learn before we cando them, we learn by doing them: Aristotle Tell me and I'll forget; Show me and I may remember;Involve me and I'll understand: Chinese Proverb Secondary school science labs: Constrained access; limited relevance; lack of integrationwith learning technologies (Goodrum, Hackling, Rennie. 2001) Lost Learning Opportunities! But why Labs (rather than, say, simulations)? They are expensive, cumbersome, inflexible, difficult to evolve, disconnected from reality, time-consuming, …

  13. Is our lab pedagogy evolving? c2010 LaboratoryTypical undergraduate facilities c1900 LaboratoryCavendish laboratoryhttp://www-outreach.phy.cam.ac.uk/camphy/museum/area8/display1.htm

  14. Example labs

  15. Remote Labs + New opportunities

  16. MOOCs Massive Online Open Courses • “A massive open online course (MOOC) is a category of online course where the participants are distributed and course materials also are dispersed across the web. … MOOCs are open and one of their main features has been the level of connection and collaboration by participants online. … They allow for a single teacher to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students. …” • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course • 2011: • Several course offerings by Stanford University.Artificial Intelligence  160,000 enrolmentsMachine learning  104,000 enrolments • 2012: • Coursera: 33+ Universities, 200+ courses, 1.3million students! • EdX: MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, $90M • Udacity

  17. MOOCs Implications • “will only be 10 universities left in the world”: Thrun http://nation.time.com/2012/09/04/mooc-brigade-will-massive-open-online-courses-revolutionize-higher-education/#ixzz27KpW498m • Enormous repository of rich content! Flexibility, but… • Content is not learning! • We still need support (teaching?) • We still need structure (curriculum?) • How do we weave these together? • Blended learning?

  18. Thank You

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