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Thursday, December 9, 2010

Purdue Develops New Courses For Computer Science Teachers

The Brazil (IN) Times (12/8) reported, "Faculty from Purdue's Department of Computer Science and College of Education worked together to develop two new courses and create a computer science teaching supplemental licensure program for education majors. The program is part of Purdue's National Science Foundation-funded Computer Science for the Education project that is part of a national initiative to expand by 2015 the number of high school educators who are qualified to teach computer science." One course, "Contemporary Issues in Computing," considers "how computing affects everyone in society and what the implications are for the future. " The second, "Methods of Teaching Computer Science," focuses on "effective techniques for teaching computational thinking and presents the latest research on how to teach computing concepts and programming skills." The students will also "take four computer science courses in programming, discrete mathematics and data structures and algorithms to fulfill the program requirements."

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