On Mar 10, 12:50 pm, "A. Jorge Garcia" <[email protected]> wrote: > Jason Grout <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 3/10/12 10:23 AM, michel paul wrote: > > > This was a point made by KCrisman on the recent thread regarding > > 'simplified function calls'. It immediately struck me as perfect for > > K-12 education to hear, so I forwarded it to our math and science > > departments. > > > It seems to have resonated! At least a little bit. : ) > > We require our math majors to take the beginning CS programming course > (which is currently in Java, but may switch to python sometime in the > future...)
Ours switched to Python about three years ago :) > Isn't that the wrong message? Math and Science majors should take compsci > ESPECIALLY if going into education!!! Sure, but this is not really required or demanded by most secondary education positions currently, so I was talking about the employment situation. I'd like my majors to have had demanding literature courses, too (preferably Shakespeare or Dostoevsky), but employers aren't demanding that either, unfortunately. Facility with things like smartboards is, but not this. To be fair, if you have actually observed any typical secondary classrooms lately (I have), this would be asking a lot of teachers to add. However, having the ability to "smoothly" integrate things like Geogebra in a HS Geometry class, instead of flailing about, would be very beneficial, true. I'd be interested in hearing from others who actively place majors in non-grad school, non-secondary positions. - kcrisman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en.
