Reading, 'Riting, 'Rithmetic, And Recursion: Shriram Krishnamurthi Comments On The "Necessity" Of K-12 CS Education In The Providence Journal
- Posted by Jesse Polhemus
- on March 10, 2016
"Gov. Gina Raimondo's new initiative [CS4RI, announced on Monday] is a step in exactly the right direction," writes Professor Shriram Krishnamurthi of Brown University's Computer Science Department (Brown CS) in today's Providence Journal. "Rhode Island is strong in computing thanks to our universities and companies, and we are well poised to become stronger. Our goal must be to get computing education to every single student: it has gone from a luxury for us to a necessity for the next generation."
Shriram, one of the co-founders of Bootstrap (a curriculum that teaches children to program their own videogames using purely algebraic concepts, currently used by 10,000 students in 17 states and five countries), uniquely combines an academic perspective with a parental one, arguing that children need to thrive in a world where both the breadth and depth of knowledge required for citizens has increased, and to understand the consequences of the new power that they wield.
The full letter is available here.
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