1. Teach the Teachers, and Contribute to Humanity.
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Guzdial, Mark and Fisher, Lawrence M.
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COMPUTER science education , *COMPUTER science teachers , *TEACHER retention , *COMPUTER literacy ,COMPUTER engineering education - Abstract
The author suggests for computer science (CS) education to focus on adults before teaching it to children. Topics discussed include Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) past president Vint Cerf's testimony before the U.S. Senate on the need for more CS education, the University of California at Los Angeles' (UCLA) working paper "The Revolving Door: CS for All and the Challenge of Teacher Retention" on the challenges of getting more schools and CS teachers and results of Lijun Ni's study on CS teacher identity.
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- 2014
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