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Posts from SICSE: Lazowska suggests green IT as next space race
Ed Lazowska is chair of the Computing Community Consortium. He gave the last keynote at SIGCSE (slides here). He describes the 20 greatest engineering achievements of the 20th Century. Computing is listed, as are electronics and the internet. Perhaps even more important though is the role of computing in ALL of the other achievements from […]
Posts from SIGCSE: Differentiated learning through reading
March 27, 2008
Leigh Ann Sudol from Carnegie Mellon takes a different approach to get students thinking about bigger pictures: she makes them read. In forging connections, she describes a reading assignment and the impact of that assignment on getting students thinking about computer science and its connections to their life. She sees that: students are entering with […]
Posts from SIGCSE: Computer Science service-learning programme
March 26, 2008
Chris Brooks described a successful service-learning programme for computer science students (pdf). He teaches at a Jesuit school where service learning is the norm. He makes the point that this is not “volunteering” , rather service learning is community-based active lerning that supplements classroom material with reflective activities that help students synthesize experiences: If the […]
Posts from SIGCSE: Can students re-engineer? No.
March 26, 2008
Eli Blevis makes the point that we have to make it cool to want to own a retro iPod. He doesn’t mean a new piece of equipment made to look old, but that we keep our old favourites alive for a lot longer than is the current trend. beyond the switch in marketing and fashion, […]
Posts from SIGCSE: Cyberporn
March 26, 2008
Joe Oldham (pdf) has a different take on introducing ethics to computing students an issue that is “necessary but problematic”. Instead of covering the theory he uses a topical approach: cyberporn. He sees this approach as a solution to a problem where one option to include ethics is the blending into technical courses which has […]
Computing for Sustainability 
April 3, 2008
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