International Travel: Working Group on (Re)Defining Computing

计算科学的基础需要重新思考。该小组将于2009年在法国巴黎召开的计算机科学创新与技术年会（ITiCSE）上召集一个工作组，阐明计算和计算思维的基本属性，并解释围绕这种思维方式构建的计算课程可能是什么样子。尽管该领域之前的大部分工作都集中在本科专业，但该项目对大学预科、学士学位后和非专业课程同样重要。因此，该项目将直接针对那些创建高中序列、新的博士课程、想要或需要继续学习CS 101以外的非专业人士，以及那些试图接触传统上在计算机领域代表性不足的学生的人。在会议之前，一个使用电子协作工具的小组将起草一份粗略的文件，描述课程改革的动机和核心思想。我们将在这个阶段使用电子协作工具。每个研讨会成员将分发至少一个课程的描述，以及它支持或被模型支持的方式。在会议上，成员们将讨论并完善文件草案。在部分工作组会议期间，有组织的头脑风暴技术和促进的讨论将有助于设想可能以这一想法为基础的各级替代课程。这些设想以及现有的案例研究将成为报告的一部分。该工作组由国际学者和工业界成员以及来自美国各种机构的学者组成。

The foundations of computing science need rethinking. This group will convene a working group at the Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science (ITiCSE) in 2009 in Paris, France to articulate the fundamental properties of computing and computational thinking, and to explain what computing curricula built around this way of thinking might look like. Although much of the previous work in this area has focused on undergraduate majors, this project is equally important to pre-college, post-baccalaureate, and non-majors programs. As such, the program will directly address those creating high school sequences, new PhD programs, concentrations for non-majors who want or need to continue beyond CS 101 and those who are trying to reach students traditionally underrepresented in computing. Prior to the meeting, a group using electronic collaboration tools will draft a rough document describing the motivations for curricular change and the idea at its heart. We will use electronic collaboration tools for this phase. Each workshop member will circulate a description of at least one curriculum and the ways in which it supports or is supported by the model. At the meeting itself, members will discuss and refine the draft document. During part of the working group meeting, structured brainstorming techniques and facilitated discussions will aid in envisioning alternative curricula at all levels that might build on this idea. These visions, together with existing case studies will be part of the report. The working group is made of international scholars and members of industry as well as academics from the United States from a variety of institutions.