Barack Obama on computer science and programming
Watch Barack Obama’s recent Google+ Hangout, in which he discusses the importance of computer science in preparing the USA’s future workforce, in association with the ACM (following on from a successful CSEdWeek in December).
A very clear message about teaching computer science and programming at high school, to develop creators and not just consumers of technology:
(N.B. Obama seems fairly comfortable with computer science, as this interview with Eric Schmidt from 2008 highlights…)
Written by Tom
16 February 2013 at 2:41 pm
Posted in CS education, Education policy, Technology
Tagged with ACM, Barack Obama, CSEdWeek, Programming, STEM
4 Responses
Subscribe to comments with RSS.
There is a clear benefit here of being in the privileged position of having a massive audience and having good advisers telling him.sensible things.
It seems that the Welsh administration are pushing forwards in the right direction on this too – I look forward to seeing the results!
Dave Donaghy
26 February 2013 at 3:27 pm
Cheers Dave, the Welsh ICT curriculum review is exciting — there has been lots of promising policy change in the UK over the past year or so!
Tom
27 February 2013 at 11:14 pm
Yesterday, computer science education had a good day in America:
(5 min and 9 min version also available)
Tom
27 February 2013 at 11:12 pm
And don’t forget the fantastic Code Club interview from June 2012:
Tom
22 March 2013 at 11:56 am