Thanks Titus and Greg. Interesting questions. If you haven't seen it yet, Philip Guo has a great post about designing for learning at scale: https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/219967-learning-programming-at-scale/fulltext <https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/219967-learning-programming-at-scale/fulltext>
Warmly, Carol Carol Willing Research Software Engineer Project Jupyter at Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo @willingc on GitHub and @willingcarol on Twitter willi...@gmail.com and cawil...@calpoly.edu Signature Strengths Empathy - Relator - Ideation - Strategic - Learner > On Feb 7, 2018, at 8:39 AM, C. Titus Brown <ctbr...@ucdavis.edu> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 06:22:29AM -0500, Greg Wilson wrote: > >> https://computinged.wordpress.com/2018/02/05/the-purpose-of-education-is-hope-contrasting-the-lost-einsteins-and-kennett-missouri/ >> >> is another great blog post from Mark Guzdial about the different goals >> for computing education that I hope will be of interest to Carpentry >> folk: are we trying to create sports champions, or provide public health? > > Hi Greg, > > interesting post! > > Within the framework of the Carpentries thus far, I've always understood > us as targeting researchers. That's actually in the DC Mission Statement: > > http://www.datacarpentry.org/mission/ > > So in a very explicit sense we are not targeting *everyone*. Which is > probably good, because that would be even harder. > > But I definitely see this community targeting broad computational literacy > within the research community - generally the lessons and training are not > targeted only at people who are looking at faculty careers, but rather > aim at teaching current practitioners, e.g. grad students, with the aim of > giving them skills that they can use in whatever careers they pursue. > > To align with the metaphor, I would say that maybe we are focused on > teaching high school and collegiate athletics, which is broader than > "sports champions" while including some of the future champions; but > not so broad as to include everyone, i.e. not "public health." That having > been said, the ripple effect of teaching a good large chunk of people should > be pretty significant... > > best, > --titus > -- > C. Titus Brown, ctbr...@ucdavis.edu > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
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