A Personal Pantagraph

This is the first in a series of entries regarding the future of computer science education. This is something I care about deeply, and I’ve been spurred by conversations with colleagues across the nation. The NSF is concerned about the we are educating future computer scientists, and they have been holding town hall [...]

Recently Pamela Gay wrote an essay called Education: Some Assembly Required, in which she bemoans the lack of involvement students have with their own education. She remembers a time when students were active participants in class, when they thought about what the professor said, when they read the book, when they worked on the [...]