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CSSE Seminar Series (CSSESS)

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Seminar

Computer Science in High Schools: preparing for better-prepared students


Speaker
Tim Bell

Institute
University of Canterbury

Time & Place
3pm, Wed., 15 May., in 031, Erskine Building

All are welcome

Abstract

New standards for computer science were phased in to high schools from 2011, and the first cohort of students who have had access to these standards will arrive at universities in 2014. This seminar will look at what these students will have studied, and how our mixture of students is likely to change next year. Some suggestions for accommodating the changes will be mentioned to seed discussions about our response.

Biography

Dr. Tim Bell is a Professor in the department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. His current research interests include Computers and Music, Public Understanding of (Computer) Science, and educational applications of podcasting. He received the Science Communicator Award from the NZ Association of Scientists in 1999, and an inaugural New Zealand Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award in 2002. He has appeared with his "Computer Science Unplugged" show at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, the Dunedin International Science Festival, and the Australian Science Festival. He is also a qualified musician, and performs regularly on instruments that have black-and-white keyboards. He is co-author of the books "Text Compression" and "Managing Gigabytes".

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