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--- misc:thoughts_on_computing_education [2012/03/12 01:42] – mithat
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 ===== Personal Proclivities =====
-Having a formal education that has encompassed the liberal arts, engineering, and design (in both a school of fine arts and in institutes of technology), I find myself agreeing emphatically with Cross' analysis discussed above. More to the point, I believe it is possible to align computing education with all three of the cognitive approaches mentioned by Cross. In particular, "classical" computing education has not traditionally emphasized constructive methodologies. However, the culture surrounding the nascent field of physical computing has a strong constructive component---and has produced practitioners capable of simultaneously elegant and complex computing solutions. This has some interesting implications for computing education in any context that I believe are worth perusing.
+Having a formal education that has encompassed the liberal arts, engineering, and design (in both a school of fine arts and in institutes of technology), I find myself agreeing emphatically with Cross' analysis discussed above. More to the point, I believe it is possible to align computing education with all three of the cognitive approaches mentioned by Cross. In particular, "classical" computing education has not traditionally emphasized constructive methodologies. However, the culture surrounding the nascent field of physical computing has a strong constructive component---and has produced practitioners capable of simultaneously elegant and complex computing solutions. This has some interesting implications for computing education in any context that I believe are worth purusing.
 Within the context of university education, my personal preference is to focus on conceptual and theoretical issues and to use technology as a vehicle to explore them. I am comfortable using inductive, deductive, or constructive approaches as required by the content and students. I believe this approach best satisfies the pedagogical, academic, and professional needs of the student.