Opening Exploration
A 50-minute facilitated session for faculty colleagues. The first in a series of conversations — the goal is to begin mapping the terrain together, not to make decisions or stake out positions.
Session Stages
Welcome to this session on the future of undergraduate computing education. This is the first in a series of conversations — the goal is to begin mapping the terrain together, not to make decisions or stake out positions. Everything you write today will be captured and shared back to you afterward.
Please write individually in response to the following questions. Specific details are encouraged.
The facilitator synthesizes what participants wrote in response to Question 2 and reflects it back to the room. Brief and conversational — the room's own words, reflected back and lightly extended.
Pair up and discuss: What changes to our program would better prepare our undergraduate students for the future of computing? Each pair should write down two or three ideas.
Before reconvening, distill your pair's single most important idea into one sentence and submit it.
The facilitator synthesizes across all pair submissions — naming themes, surfacing tensions, noting where pairs converged or diverged.
Please write individually in response to the following questions.
Thank you for participating. The facilitator will close by naming what the room has begun to surface and framing what the next session will explore: as we begin to navigate these changes, what do we most want to preserve, and why?