Education and ComputingPub Date : 1991-01-01Epub Date: 2007-01-03DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9287(05)80082-2
David Gries
{"title":"Improving the curriculum through the teaching of calculation and discrimination","authors":"David Gries","doi":"10.1016/S0167-9287(05)80082-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0167-9287(05)80082-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The field of computing—including its application by programmers, systems analysts and others—suffers tremendously from a lack of use of formal reasoning in everyday work. The problem can be solved, at least partly, by teaching calculational methods in mathematics and programming in the freshman year, and in such a way that students develop a <em>skill</em> with the methods, and not just a passing understanding. Freshman courses should instil the idea that mathematical techniques can help and should encourage a sense of discrimination, of making judgements on technical matters based on technical concerns.</p><p>A serious overhaul of the conventional second programming course and the discrete mathematics course along these lines could have a profound impact on the whole computer science curriculum. Moreover, a properly designed course would be beneficial for mathematicians and engineers as well.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100393,"journal":{"name":"Education and Computing","volume":"7 1","pages":"Pages 61-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0167-9287(05)80082-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84674013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Education and ComputingPub Date : 1991-01-01Epub Date: 2009-10-05DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9287(09)90004-8
Joan Hanor
{"title":"The effects of technology on early art development","authors":"Joan Hanor","doi":"10.1016/S0167-9287(09)90004-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0167-9287(09)90004-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>For some time I have nurtured a curiosity regarding the effects of technology on early art development. As my opportunities increased for observing and then influencing the learning process, I found myself addicted to the excitement of technology, specifically in the area of art education. I can now draw on information gathered from three professional experiences: elementary school teacher (K-8), project director of an Equity Project entitled “Encouraging Female Students in Math and Science through Art and Technology” and Artist in Residence with the San Bernardino Arts Foundation.</p><p>As in any project, the real measure of success is the accomplishment of the students. Students' growth in the areas of art curriculum, use of related art vocabulary, choice of methods selected for completing a task, utilization of thinking skills, application of art principles, and the increased productivity of personal expression, is evidenced in their impressive collection of art files: printed, on disk, and on video. It is my intent to share these files, along with related anecdotal records, and to detail some of the instructional processes that accompany the use of technology in the classroom.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100393,"journal":{"name":"Education and Computing","volume":"7 3","pages":"Pages 167-170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0167-9287(09)90004-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81635653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Education and ComputingPub Date : 1991-01-01Epub Date: 2009-10-05DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9287(09)90014-0
Michael McGovern
{"title":"Databases in the elementary school: A teacher's report","authors":"Michael McGovern","doi":"10.1016/S0167-9287(09)90014-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0167-9287(09)90014-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A report of the classroom activity which supports the research undertaken by Toni Downes, University of Western Sydney, on databases in the elementary school. The report targets the period 1989–90, covering such areas as selection of software; maintenance of student ownership in investigations; student familiarisation with new software and hardware; gathering real data; use of database and printing facility; classroom climate and teacher comments on the use of databases.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100393,"journal":{"name":"Education and Computing","volume":"7 3","pages":"Pages 245-248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0167-9287(09)90014-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83445719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Education and ComputingPub Date : 1991-01-01Epub Date: 2007-01-03DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9287(05)80078-0
Mary Shaw
{"title":"Informatics for a new century: Computing education for the 1990s and beyond","authors":"Mary Shaw","doi":"10.1016/S0167-9287(05)80078-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0167-9287(05)80078-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Information Technology and computer science have not only reshaped computation, communication and commerce; they have expanded the basic models and paradigms of many disciplines. Informatics education has obligations to all the communities that rely on information technology, not just the computing professionals. Serving this extended audience well requires changes in the content and presentation of computing curricula. This paper sketches the coming needs for information processing and analyzes the populations that will require informatics education. It considers curriculum requirements through two examples, one outside the traditional boundary of computer science and one inside.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100393,"journal":{"name":"Education and Computing","volume":"7 1","pages":"Pages 9-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0167-9287(05)80078-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90668033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Education and ComputingPub Date : 1991-01-01Epub Date: 2009-10-05DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9287(09)90017-6
Sandra Wills
{"title":"Teachers as educational software designers: Industry/university co-operation","authors":"Sandra Wills","doi":"10.1016/S0167-9287(09)90017-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0167-9287(09)90017-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Funding was obtained in 1989 to develop a pilot elective in 1990 within the Graduate Diploma of Computer Education at The University of Melbourne. Entitled “Designing Educational Software”, the elective takes advantage of new authoring tools and multimedia facilities to introduce teachers to the philosophies and practicalities of developing software for the classroom.</p><p>This in itself is not innovative. However, the elective will be not only offered to teachers enrolled in the Graduate Diploma but to trainers from industry as well, particularly those involved in Computer Based Training. <span>cbt</span> is a career path for teachers that has not yet been exploited and at the same time, the <span>cbt</span> industry reports skills shortages. The elective has been designed in co-operation with the <span>cbt</span> industry.</p><p>A second aim of the course is to expose industry trainers to the educational philosophies behind school level software. From the interaction of schoolteachers and industry trainers, we shall attempt to develop broader models of <span>cbt</span> than the ones currently embraced by the training industry. Likewise, the development of school software should benefit from exposure to the more sophisticated facilities available in industry.</p><p>The pilot is continuing in 1991 and the teachers will be joined by a smaller number of enrolments from the training industry. By 1992, the percentage of teachers to industry trainers will be 50/50.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100393,"journal":{"name":"Education and Computing","volume":"7 3","pages":"Pages 267-272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0167-9287(09)90017-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85599585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Education and ComputingPub Date : 1991-01-01Epub Date: 2009-10-05DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9287(09)90023-1
{"title":"List of participants","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S0167-9287(09)90023-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-9287(09)90023-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100393,"journal":{"name":"Education and Computing","volume":"7 3","pages":"Pages 309-310"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0167-9287(09)90023-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138390822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Education and ComputingPub Date : 1991-01-01Epub Date: 2007-01-03DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9287(05)80088-3
Robert M. Aiken
{"title":"The new hurrah: Creating a fundamental rôle for artificial intelligence in the computing science curriculum","authors":"Robert M. Aiken","doi":"10.1016/S0167-9287(05)80088-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0167-9287(05)80088-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper outlines why artificial intelligence (<span>ai</span>) topics should assume a more prominent rôle in the discipline of computing science. Moreover, an argument is presented for considering <span>ai</span> as the cultural foundation for computing science. Key <span>ai</span> topics are discussed, as well as the importance of the laboratory component. Emphasis is placed on what could be done in the laboratory and in courses “outside” the <span>ai</span> course to reinforce the central concepts. A proposal is made that, given the importance of this material, the core topics should be required for students in mathematics, science and engineering, in addition to those in computing science.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100393,"journal":{"name":"Education and Computing","volume":"7 1","pages":"Pages 119-124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0167-9287(05)80088-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74477146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Education and ComputingPub Date : 1991-01-01Epub Date: 2007-01-03DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9287(05)80080-9
Kim B. Bruce
{"title":"Creating a new model curriculum: A rationale for Computing curricula 1990","authors":"Kim B. Bruce","doi":"10.1016/S0167-9287(05)80080-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0167-9287(05)80080-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Joint Curriculum Task Force of the <span>acm</span> and the <span>ieee</span> Computer Society has proposed a new flexible collection of curricula which provides the basis for broad-based undergraduate computing programs. In order to have the curricula applicable to as many types of undergraduate institutions as possible, the curricula have been designed around a collection of “knowledge units” which can be put together in a variety of ways to form a coherent set of courses leading to a major in computing. In order to help provide connections between these knowledge units, the task force has also identified a number of “recurring concepts” which tie together seemingly disparate parts of the curriculum. The purpose of this article is to provide an informal discussion of the considerations that went into the creation of these curricular guidelines, and provide insight into the reasons behind many of the decisions that were made.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100393,"journal":{"name":"Education and Computing","volume":"7 1","pages":"Pages 23-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0167-9287(05)80080-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87305457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Education and ComputingPub Date : 1991-01-01Epub Date: 2007-01-03DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9287(05)80086-X
Niklaus Wirth
{"title":"Perspectives on computer science education","authors":"Niklaus Wirth","doi":"10.1016/S0167-9287(05)80086-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0167-9287(05)80086-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>It is claimed that there should be a difference between education at the university level and that in a trade school. The student at the academic level should receive training in analyzing and abstraction in addition to building. Yet theoretical knowledge must be applied and should lead to clearer and neater designs. Another important goal is to learn to distinguish the essentials from the “bells and whistles,” genuine needs from toys. The conclusion is that it may be hard to design a reliable and effective system, but it is even harder to design one that others will want to use.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100393,"journal":{"name":"Education and Computing","volume":"7 1","pages":"Pages 105-109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0167-9287(05)80086-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81938010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Education and ComputingPub Date : 1991-01-01Epub Date: 2007-01-03DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9287(05)80084-6
Helmut Schauer
{"title":"A first course in computer science at the University of Zurich","authors":"Helmut Schauer","doi":"10.1016/S0167-9287(05)80084-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0167-9287(05)80084-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>After sketching the basic concepts of informatics, a schedule is presented that allows the teaching of these concepts using current technology. Throughout the course, the usage of formalized notations for the specification and the solution of problems is emphasized. The work in the computer labs includes applications of standard software as well as problem solving using HyperCard and Object-Pascal. Even with inexperienced students, object-oriented programming has proved to be a perfect means for design and implementation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100393,"journal":{"name":"Education and Computing","volume":"7 1","pages":"Pages 87-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0167-9287(05)80084-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90310449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}