tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2682124344165339446.post5941420309316353482..comments2024-02-05T18:31:35.119-08:00Comments on Interdisciplinary Computing Blog: Better Living With Computer ScienceLisa C. Kaczmarczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00761462757785528055noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2682124344165339446.post-31701446129360557322013-01-22T20:45:53.820-08:002013-01-22T20:45:53.820-08:00Your post raises (for me) a number of interesting ...Your post raises (for me) a number of interesting questions. We don't teach anthropology, for the most part, in high school. In fact there are a large number of disciplines that are not regularly covered in a western secondary school curriculum.<br /><br />The question of what goes into such a curriculum and what does not is partly informed by one's educational philosophy. Is it Jeffersonian; to have an informed electorate? Is it more Keynesian; to create the workers (some skilled, some not) to keep the wheels of capitalism (or communism) running? There are other philosophies to boot.<br /><br />I like to approach the question from the perspective of "what should any liberally educated (or maybe just college educated) person know about computation/informatics? This is more Jeffersonian than Keynesian. One can ask the same about just about any discipline. (e.g. What should any "educated" person know about Calculus, or evolution, etc.)<br /><br />It took quite some time for the phenomenal accomplishment that is Calculus to make its way into the "canon," the same is true for Darwin's evolution. I expect that the appropriate basics of computation will get there - it will just take some time.<br /><br />What can we as computation educators do to speed the process along?<br /><br />To mean the fascinating question is: What is it that any/every educated person SHOULD know about computationinformatics?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11466056822830439396noreply@blogger.com