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High level praise for Otago Polytechnic’s education for sustainability
Big names have been complimenting Otago Polytechnic on our “every graduate” approach to sustainability. I’m in still in Portland, so here’s the ODT‘s take: OTAGO Polytechnic’s decision to weave ‘‘education for sustainability’’ into all its courses has won high praise from Green MP Metiria Turei and Dr Morgan Williams, the former Parliamentary Commissioner for the […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, Otago Polytechnic
Posts from SIGCSE: bring on Alice 3
March 15, 2008
Wanda Dann, Dennis Cosgrove and co are hosting several hundred academics at the Alice tea-party today. We’ve used Alice for several years now in our introductory programming courses. Dale and Patricia have carefully measured learning outcomes (pdf). They, along with others, have found that students can get distracted by the building of characters (joining legs […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability, sigcse
Posts from SIGCSE: Marissa Mayer’s 9 lessons from Google
March 15, 2008
Marissa Mayer is giving the keynote at SIGCSE. In her talk “Innovation, design and simplicity”, she’s talking about 9 lessons from Google. She’s given this talk before (Stanford podcasts) but the insights for computer science education and the Q&A are new. Here’s my notes: 1. Creativity loves constraint Sometimes best ideas come from constraint. Eg […]
Posted in: sigcse
Posts from SIGCSE: Humanitarian FOSS project
March 14, 2008
Ralph Morelli from Trinity College is leading a workshop at SIGCSE called “Teaching and Building Humanitarian Open Source Software” (with others including Heidi Elias and Janardham Iyengar). This is an exciting move towards computing for sustainability. Humanitarian-FOSS is software that benefits humanity in some way. They use the word humanitarian in the broadest sense, so […]
LivingCampus Forum
March 5, 2008
We’ve got a LivingCampus forum on Friday lunchtime. At this meeting we’re talking about what we’ve done so far and introducing a strategy to progress the design and implementation. The key to this process is working groups to contribute to the design of each themed area to develop a plan that meets each of the […]
Posted in: LivingCampus, Otago Polytechnic
Computing for Sustainability 
March 16, 2008
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