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Green Birds of Feather
We held a successful Birds of a Feather session at SIGCSE last week. Here’s my notes: – Hope for a SIGCSE sustainable practice statement We discussed the New Zealand (NACCQ) statement on Computing Education for Sustainability – here is the background: https://computingforsustainability.wordpress.com/cfs-policy/ – Deeper analysis of problems and opportunities – Promoting sustainable practice, integration with […]
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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, […]
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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 
March 27, 2008
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