1. While we’re here,
let’s fix computer
science education
Selena Deckelmann
selena@postgresopen.org

2. Thanks!

3. http://bit.ly/ReeWlU
or
http://piratepad.net/djangocon-keynote-selena-
reading-list

4. [intentionally blank]

7. 50% growth in
computer-related jobs
by 2018

8. 70% of FOSS devs have
at least a Bachelors
degree

11. ???????

12. Paris Declaration
http://bit.ly/MTvxzl

14. Modeling
Guided Practice
Independent Practice
Generalization

16. Lost 35% of
CS courses offered
9-12 grade in the
USA since 2005

17. “In 2008, 17% of AP computer science
test takers were women, even though
women represented 55% of all AP test
takers. 784 African American students
nationwide took the AP CS exam.”

21. Computational thinking

22. “A way that humans, not computers, think.
Computational thinking is a way humans solve
problems; it is not trying to get humans to think like
computers. Computers are dull and boring; humans are
clever and imaginative. We humans make computers
exciting. Equipped with computing devices, we use our
cleverness to tackle problems we would not dare take
on before the age of computing and build systems with
functionality limited only by our imaginations.”
-Jeanette Wing

24. Today’s world
Teachers
Teacher/open in
source Schools
collaboration Open Source
on lessons Contributors

26. Open source IT in
schools is not the
answer, right now.

28. Modeling
Guided Practice
Independent Practice
Generalization

29. Access to
computer science is a
social justice issue.

33. photo: Reuters

34. Mimiko lost.

35. Or did he?

36. Protest filed:
May 14, 2007

37. image courtesy of flickr user bistra1

38. Adrian Forty, Fingerprint expert

39. 84,814

41. “olee yen loun sa lo yen.”

45. http://is.gd/5gULDz
or
http://imet.csus.edu/imet1/
scotty/filelesson/
fileconcept.htm

46. teachtoday.chesnok.com

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