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[CCEdu] CS Teaching Myths

Started by nitrogenfingers, 21 July 2015 - 02:32 AM
nitrogenfingers #1
Posted 21 July 2015 - 04:32 AM
With the release of CCEdu, there may potentially be some school teachers looking for resources for teaching students here on the forums, or other people just interested in making educational content for students. Thus far written tutorials in our tutorial section and video tutorials on youtube have been the most common way of presenting educational material, but if you are interested in direct CS teaching methods (tutorials, lecturing etc.), I've come across an excellent ACM Comms article debunking a couple of common myths about teaching:
http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/189498-top-10-myths-about-teaching-computer-science/fulltext

Interestingly, I think the first point regarding gender disparity is not limited to university entrance exams:


I hope anyone who is interested in great educational materials using CCEdu (or just computercraft) find this interesting :)/>

-NF
DannySMc #2
Posted 21 July 2015 - 11:09 AM
Nice, this is actually pretty interesting