Posts Tagged ‘Computer Science’
Computer Science is NOT Boring!
August 16th, 2010
Well I guess a lot of people, especially students thing computer science is boring. According to a recent article (Steve Furber: why kids are turned off computing) the UK’s Royal Society is trying to understand why students are not interested in studying computing. One conclusion they have come to early on is that “something was happening with the way ICT and computing was presented at schools that was turning the kids off.” IN short, computing is taught in a boring way. Digging deeper into the article we find that people are confusing ICT (information and computer technology – think Office applications) is computing. Well of course it is not. Worse still those classes are boring as can be so there is less incentive for students to do real computing.
Of course there are some boring “real” computer science courses out there as well which doesn’t help. In the article, Steve Furber is quoted as saying “the curriculum may actually allow everything that’s necessary, but it’s simply that the materials aren’t there to support the interesting bits.”.
Tags: Boring, Computer Science
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