Preparing for the Future
AI is reshaping computing, and computing education needs to keep up. These guided conversations bring CS educators together to confront the important questions: What should we still teach? What do our students actually need? How do we prepare them for a field that's changing faster than our courses and curricula?
Sessions
Each session is a structured, facilitated discussion designed to surface real insights from the people closest to the classroom.
0. Opening Exploration
The first in a series of conversations for faculty colleagues — the goal is to begin mapping the terrain together, not to make decisions or stake out positions.
50 minutes1. Exploring Different Populations
Exploring the needs of the students in our program. Participants identify distinct student populations and discuss what each group needs from a computing degree.
50 minutes2. Applied Computing
Students who want to build — one of the two populations identified in the Exploring Different Populations session — make up much of our courses, but the curriculum was rarely designed around them. What should an undergraduate program look like for them, with AI as part of the picture — as tutor and study companion as much as code generator?
50 minutes3. Computer Science
Students who want to understand — the other population identified in the Exploring Different Populations session — are the audience the current curriculum was built for. What does that program look like now that AI is reshaping how students learn, explore, and produce work — as tutor and study companion as much as code generator?
50 minutes