Next Steps
(ground rules – stay on topic, and stay brief)
Foundational studies (consider participatory design sessions – with
undergraduate students, and high school students).
o The curriculum rethinking should be on the order of process not
prescription and fund curricula that are assessable, sharable, flexible.
Rethink the upper division courses to adapt to change in the huge
explosion of knowledge. This is a key area to involve industry.
Intro courses (pumps, not filters).
Interdisciplinary computing (team taught and team developed with
people from other areas).
o Find out what high school level kids – know what will motivate them, get
them excited. EARLY
Funded pilot projects and programs
o We have to free up time to spend time with students and to respond
effectively to changes from the external world to bring in relevant
material. Support curriculum artifacts to make CS professors more
productive (great projects, model science)
o Consider a review process for submission of educational materials, and
some kind of institute
o Develop a ongoing subcommunity of CS educators that focus on education
research methods.
o Set up mechanisms to inform computer scientists of social science and
education research can inform our own teaching, and
*** Further roles for ICER participants
o Read and comment on the report, and comment on it, in two weeks, set up
a wiki for response and discussion.
o Maintain the ICER-NW web site to include: a wiki for report and
discussion of discussions with our colleagues, etc., references and
bibliographies, the final report, and other activities.
o Have a faculty lunch once a month to talk about this.
o CCSC-NW panel
o Article for CRN
o BOF at SigCSE
o Every person commit to doing one thing.
Engagement of key people and communities (incl. Industry and small institutions)
Identify the key audience and send out a coordinated, consistent message (a new
message about the new computer science), to influence what they do: (open loop:
input agents, change agents, output agents. Everyone who gets input gets output.
The output is the marketing piece.).
o National policy makers: CRA, professional societies (IEEE,ACM,
CCSC), NSF, Congress. We should advise them to get together and ask
them to give a unified message, e.g., the CRA summit.
o Large corporations (MS, Intel,
o State policy
*** Create an elevator message, one each for:
o ***computer science faculty (we are in trouble; what needs change and
why)
o potential student
o general public
o academic institutions (administration) both large and small. Are there
Industry. Organize another meeting, which has significant (at least 50%) industry
participation. This
Students. Organize a ‘not like us’ meeting with students.
Develop an approach deans/provosts. Materials: data, persuasive arguments.
NSF should do within 6-12 months:
NSF should do in the longer term support:
*** Young faculty grants based on education and teaching, rather than just
research. More small grants. Release time to develop curriculum.
Work with other directorates at NSF and NIH to fund collaborative
interdisciplinary curricular development.
Address the institutional change issues. Research on organizational change
within the academy. Obstacles to our efforts