Hawthorn College Advisors’ Post

As we continue to exponentially expand our computing capablities, we would be wise to remember that it’s our humanity (in all its glory and imperfection) which makes us actually human and that computers exist to support us, not the other way around. If we take that humanity for granted, we may just find ourselves continually more “online”, but even less able to actually connect to one another. “I used to think computing education might be stuck in a nesting-doll version of the engineer’s fallacy, in which CS departments have been asked to train more software engineers without considering whether more software engineers are really what the world needs. Now I worry that they have a bigger problem to address: how to make computer people care about everything else as much as they care about computers.” #humanities #technology #society

Fascinating read about the past and current state of many computer science programs. My own educational background is not in a pure computer science field and instead included a fair bit of business, philosophy and history courses which I think resulted in a net positive for my educational outcome and my career as software engineer. What was your own experience? Do you come from a school of engineering or computing or maybe an entirely different educational background? #softwareengineer #highered #computerscience

"I used to think computing education might be stuck in a nesting-doll version of the engineer’s fallacy, in which CS departments have been asked to train more software engineers without considering whether more software engineers are really what the world needs. Now I worry that they have a bigger problem to address: how to make computer people care about everything else as much as they care about computers." This could be said about software engineering in general. https://lnkd.in/e9kH2AdS

This article explores five #ComputerScience trends and where CS education is heading across the country. "Computer science helps students build essential skills for personal and professional success." #stem #CSforAll #education #k12 #edtech https://ow.ly/AKYI50QK2Za

Do you have a high school student interested in pursuing a Computer Science major? If so, please have them read a few thoughts from our Collegewise blog about how to be successful. Then let me know if you have thoughts and ideas about this!

This article explores five #ComputerScience trends and where CS education is heading across the country. "Computer science helps students build essential skills for personal and professional success." #stem #CSforAll #education #k12 #edtech https://ow.ly/AKYI50QK2Za

As an HCI adjunct professor I tend to agree that people studying computer science should have a broad based education that goes beyond math, stats and code. They should study a foreign language, poetry, black literature, feminism, because computer science is an intersectional technology it touches various layers of our human lives and those who create with it should be informed about those intersectional layers or humanity. Which is why I love teaching AI human-centered design! It address some of the gaps in computer science education that exists today!

We need innovators! This problem is not only seen at the University level, but even in entry level educational opportunities with children. We love to support the idea of pumping out more software engineers without first researching what do we need right now and more importantly in the future? Imagine building the confidence of a child into a dead end career. It’s scary to think about what the tech industry will look like in the next 3-4 years. But even scarier when we are all content in wasting talent on skills that will no longer be needed in human form.  Are we still teaching children how to write checks?  Are we still teaching them how to write in cursive? Etc.  The world is changing, I hope we can try to keep up.  #computing #tech #ComputerScience #colleges #universities #CSMajor #undergraduates #identity #IdentityInclusiveComputing #emergingdelaware #emergingteens #tequity

Preparing Future-Ready Students: The Case for Computer Science in K-12 Schools

An argument that applies to lawyers and medical doctors, too... "Their vision does not reflect the idea that computing can or should be a superordinate realm of scholarship, on the order of the arts or engineering. Rather, they are proceeding as though it were a technical school for producing a certain variety of very well-paid professionals. A computing college deserving of the name wouldn’t just provide deeper coursework in CS and its closely adjacent fields; it would expand and reinvent other, seemingly remote disciplines for the age of computation. Near the end of our conversation, Isbell mentioned the engineering fallacy, which he summarized like this: Someone asks you to solve a problem, and you solve it without asking if it’s a problem worth solving. I used to think computing education might be stuck in a nesting-doll version of the engineer’s fallacy, in which CS departments have been asked to train more software engineers without considering whether more software engineers are really what the world needs. Now I worry that they have a bigger problem to address: how to make computer people care about everything else as much as they care about computers."