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Around the world, formal education systems are bringing computing knowledge to learners. But what exactly is set down in different countries' computing curricula, and what are classroom educators teaching? This was the topic of the first in the autumn series of our Raspberry Pi research seminars on Tuesday 8 September.
[...] Examples of mismatches include lower numbers of primary school teachers reporting that they taught visual or symbolic programming, even though the topic did appear on their curriculum.
A table listing computer science topics.
This table shows computer science topic the METRECC tool asks teachers about, and what percentage of respondents in the pilot study stated that they teach these to their students.
[...] If you missed the seminar, you can find the presentation slides and a recording of the researchers' talk on our seminars page.
In our next seminar on Tuesday 6 October at 17:00–18:30 BST / 12:00–13:30 EDT / 9:00–10:30 PT / 18:00–19:30 CEST, we'll welcome Shuchi Grover, a prominent researcher in the area of computational thinking and formative assessment. The title of Shuchi's seminar is Assessments to improve student learning in introductory CS classrooms.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Freeman on Friday September 18 2020, @03:00PM (1 child)
Part of the idea of teaching kids to code is that it gets kids excited about something other than just consuming technology. I.E. thinking about creating, instead of just playing games, etc. Also, how are you supposed to know that you love coding, if you never get a chance. Sure, you can always push the envelope yourself, but part of a robust curriculum is dipping your toes in everything. Otherwise, why bother teaching the average person how to write a research paper? Who cares? I've certainly not written any research papers since I left college.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 18 2020, @09:37PM
> ... why bother teaching the average person how to write a research paper?
At a well known tech school, I nearly managed to graduate without being exposed to writing a research paper (mostly by taking drama classes for "humanities" requirements). Luckily, I finally took a history class in senior year where I clicked well enough with the prof that I got a clue about writing. After that, if you asked me about doing any more writing, I would have scoffed at you.
40+ years later, I'm co-author of several books and have written a number of technical papers. The difference, at least as best I can tell, was the availability of word processing. Writing longhand is physically painful for me (reasons), and once I could type and edit (without retyping) on a screen, all of a sudden I turned into an acceptable technical writer.