Educationhuman Computing Skills: rethinking The K-12 Experience

摘要

Since the dot-com down-turn, the conundrum we face in computer science is how such a useful discipline can have such difficulties attracting students, despite continuing growth of the IT industry. We attribute the blame for student disinterest to career instability, but similar and even stronger arguments have long existed for other disciplines with little impact on enrollment. Recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics indicates the computer and information sciences conferred fewer degrees than either the visual and performing arts or the social sciences and history-certainly not majors that are typically associated with iron-clad career guarantees. Not surprisingly, CS enrollment also lags far behind that of other practically perceived disciplines such as education or business.