Computing Education as a Foundation for 21 Century Literacy

This is Mark Guzdial: he is a Professor in the College of
Engineering at the University of Michigan.This is his talk from
"To Code and Beyond," a conference about education and computer
science, hosted by Cornell Technion.


Guzdial is a really important piece of this rubik's cube that is
contemporary thought on computer science education. This talk is
an important appetizer to the forthcoming episode, where
Professor Guzdial and I dig into some of the topics he alludes to
here. You'll notice that in the audio I intentionally made it
sound like a hollow lecture hall to bring you closer to the
milieu where such talks typically occur. That's not true.
Sometimes a venue has technical hiccups, and this one caught the
audio but didn't get a great recording. That's okay though, i'm
grateful to have what we could get.


If you're fired up about the talk. I'll link to the video in the
show notes, where you'll be able to see some of the visuals he
was sharing. It was a terrific talk, and if you can't tell from
his introduction, Mark is one in a line of thought leaders who
have fought hard to help us stay motivated in answering the tough
questions around technology in learning. Is coding a critical
21st century literacy? Yes, he says, because it helps us learn
everything else better.


My tremendous thanks to Diane Levitt of Cornell Tech, who helped
make this talk and my interview with Mark a possibility, and for
throwing a top notch event where this and much more dialogue like
it can take place.


Notes from this episode:


Video of the talk, "Computing Education as a Foundation for 21
Century Literacy":
https://cornell.app.box.com/s/feib38ctri0hpcgylte78zbstvlrneyw


Seymor Papert, Mindstorms:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindstorms_(book)


Elliot Solloway:
http://www.soe.umich.edu/people/profile/elliot_soloway/


K-12 Initiative at Cornell Tech:
https://tech.cornell.edu/impact/k-12/


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