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Computing Education as a Foundation for 21st Century Literacy

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Teaching programming as a way to express ideas, communicate with others, and understand our world is one of the oldest goals for computing education. The inventor of the term "computer science" saw it as the third leg of STEM literacy. In this talk, I lay out the history of the idea of universal computational literacy, some of what it will take to get there, and how our field will be different when we do.

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SIGCSE '19: Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
February 2019
1364 pages
ISBN:9781450358903
DOI:10.1145/3287324
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  1. computational literacy
  2. computational thinking
  3. cs for all
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