TY - GEN
T1 - (Some) Grand challenges of computer science education in the digital age
T2 - 7th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, WiPSCE 2012
AU - Kolikant, Yifat Ben David
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The goal of this paper is to articulate (some of) the grand challenges that computer science education (CSE) at the school level faces in the digital age. Based on the socio-cultural theoretical idea that learning means entering a culture, I suggest viewing schooling as an encounter between intertwined cultures. Computer science (CS) students can be viewed as members of many intertwined cultures: (a) they are newcomers to the professional computing culture, but (b) most are also old timers in a "user" culture, living in a world surrounded by informationcommunication technologies (ICT), and also have informal learning experience (and values) within ICT, mostly from out-ofschool experience; and finally, (c) they are members of the school culture which itself is currently in a process of transformation due to the digital age). Using this framework, I discuss two interrelated grand challenges of CSE in K-12 school levels: (1) the need to adjust the CS curriculum to better overlap with lifelong learning skills; and (2) the need to better learn the characteristics of the "digital" generation and attune education to address these needs.
AB - The goal of this paper is to articulate (some of) the grand challenges that computer science education (CSE) at the school level faces in the digital age. Based on the socio-cultural theoretical idea that learning means entering a culture, I suggest viewing schooling as an encounter between intertwined cultures. Computer science (CS) students can be viewed as members of many intertwined cultures: (a) they are newcomers to the professional computing culture, but (b) most are also old timers in a "user" culture, living in a world surrounded by informationcommunication technologies (ICT), and also have informal learning experience (and values) within ICT, mostly from out-ofschool experience; and finally, (c) they are members of the school culture which itself is currently in a process of transformation due to the digital age). Using this framework, I discuss two interrelated grand challenges of CSE in K-12 school levels: (1) the need to adjust the CS curriculum to better overlap with lifelong learning skills; and (2) the need to better learn the characteristics of the "digital" generation and attune education to address these needs.
KW - Challenges in CSE
KW - Cultural encounter
KW - Digital age
KW - K-12
KW - Sociocultural theories
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84878470653&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2481449.2481469
DO - 10.1145/2481449.2481469
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AN - SCOPUS:84878470653
SN - 9781450317870
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 86
EP - 89
BT - Proceedings - 7th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education, WiPSCE 2012
Y2 - 8 November 2012 through 9 November 2012
ER -