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September 27-28, 2007
Redmond Marriott Town Center
7401 164th Avenue NE
Redmond, WA 98052
USA
Rapid advances in computational technologies have dramatically changed the practice of research
in both the computing and scientific domains. Inherently interdisciplinary problems open
new opportunities for researchers in Computer Science and sciences such as
Biomedicine, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy and other disciplines.
Likewise, these problems present new challenges for science educators to innovate
and create new curricula to prepare the upcoming generation of computational scientists.
The workshop on Computational Education for Scientists will provide a unique opportunity to
discuss, learn, and influence the development of an interdisciplinary computational education standard.
Participants will explore challenges, pedagogy, and assessment in computational education.
By providing a forum for scientists and educators to share their experience, expertise,
and expectations with the wider academic and research communities, this workshop aims to
facilitate effective multi-disciplinary collaboration for science education,
stimulate breakthroughs in curriculum and pedagogy design, and impact decision makers
in order to adopt curriculum innovation in both the scientific and computing communities.
Call for Position Papers
We invite every attendee to submit a one-page position paper; and we are looking for contributions in the following areas:
- Identification of
- Problems in which computation helps students understand key concepts
- Computational commonalities in education among science disciplines
- Educational approaches that differentiate computational thinking from computing
- Case studies of computational thinking that address:
- The conceptual difference between scientific abstraction and computing abstraction
- The process of turning science abstraction into computer software
- The transformation from observational science to experimental science
- Pedagogical strategies that enable effective integration of computing with science education:
- Create multi-disciplinary environment in classroom
- Using real-world scientific research challenges to stimulate computational thinking
- Create better scientists not by increasing the number of required credits
- Education assessment for interdisciplinary curricula innovation
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Paper submission deadline: September 7, 2007.
This event is part of the Computational Education for Scientists (CEfS)
program of External Research & Programs
at Microsoft Research.
Contact Us about CEfS2007
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