COLLOQUIUM ON COMPUTER SCIENCE PEDAGOGY

COLLOQUIUM ON COMPUTER SCIENCE PEDAGOGY Tuesday, 7 November 2006 3:00 pm -- Newell-Simon Hall 3305

CHRIS STEPHENSON Executive Director, Computer Science Teachers Association Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

ADDRESSING KEY CONCERNS IN K-12 COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION


This presentation examines the issues currently affecting K-12 computer science education and provides information on key concern such as the Advance Placement xam, the No Child Left Behind legislation, and continuing problems with teacher certification. It will also describe the activities of the Computer Science Teachers Association and the resources it is now putting into place to address these issues.

Bio: Chris Stephenson is the Executive Director of ACM’s Computer Science Teachers Association. She joined ACM after 16 years of working at the University of Toronto's Computer Systems Research Institute and the University of Waterloo’s Mathematics and Computing Department where she designed instructional resources and professional development for high school educators. Since 2000, Stephenson has served as the chair of the annual Computer Science and Information Technology Symposia and as the chair of the review committee for computer science for the National Educational Computing Conference. She is the former chair of the International Society for Technology in Education's Computer Science SIG and of the ACM K-12 Task Force. Stephenson has numerous research publications in the field of computer science education and adaptive technology and has written several high school textbooks.