PAPER AT GRAND CHALLENGES IN COMPUTING EDUCATION CONFERENCE , MARCH 2004

Education Grand Challenge:
A New Kind of Liberal Education
Making People Want a Computing Education For Its Own Sake

I was not able to present the paper in person at the conference because it clashed with parallel session on computing research grand challenges that I had to attend.
Aaron Sloman
March 2004

Update 4 Mar 2006

I have just discovered that some of the points I was trying to make have been made more effectively in Jeannette Wing: 'Computational Thinking', CACM vol. 49, no. 3, March 2006, pp. 33-35, available online here (PDF)

NOTE

In July 2006 I wrote a 'thank you' for an honorary degree awarded by Sussex University, which had a section on this topic: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/dsc.html#n3

Further thoughts were added here: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/compedu.html

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