Bootstrapping computing education - Kathi Fisler and Shriram Krishnamurthi

Computing in history class? Integrating computer science education to benefit existing curricula is one way that Kathi Fisler and Shriram Krishnamurthi are bringing equitable, scalable and rigorous computer science education to school classrooms. Their program, Bootstrap, is designed to be modular and not necessarily require computing hardware, so all students and schools can participate. Educational research and teaching are not always well-rewarded in academia, but Kathi and Shriram demonstrate the profound importance of designing curricula carefully, and reflecting on them thoroughly.

Kathi Fisler and Shriram Krishnamurthi are Professors of Computer Science at Brown University (USA) and helped co-create the school-based computing education program Bootstrap.

Further reading:

• Bootstrap – school-based computing education
• What does it mean for a computing curriculum to succeed?

Music credits: Our theme music, Anders by Blue Dot Sessions, is licensed under an attribution non-commercial licence.