I haven't been blogging much lately. I'm adjusting to being retired for the most part but I have been reading and thinking a lot about teaching computer science along the way. Mark Guzdial has been thinking even harder and has posted a four part set of blog posts about the subject.
I find that many of his ideas as close to how I have done things in the past. Of course at the high school level we see a lot fewer students with previous experience in CS than many university faculty do. SO we follow much of his suggestions in proposal #1 out of necessary.
The whole series is worth reading. Don’t ignore the comments either.
- Changing Computer Science Education to eliminate structural inequities and in response to a pandemic: Starting a Four Part Series
- Proposal #1 to Change CS Education to Reduce Inequity: Teach computer science to advantage the students with less computing background
- Proposal #2 to Change CS Education to Reduce Inequity: Make the highest grades achievable by all students
- Proposal #3 to Change CS Education to Reduce Inequity: Call a truce on academic misconduct cases for programming assignments
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