Reposted by Rifat Salam
at least this one is clear about what we are optimizing for
Rifat Salam
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Sociologist, prof at CUNY BMCC, pedagogy,WAC, teach about tech/society #communitycollege Neurodivergent, invisible disability, and in my non-work life, I’m a NJ mom, politics junkie, with a lot of hobbies. 🪴👻🪄🧙♀️ (opinions and thoughts are my own.)
![A degree in CS mostly prepares students to become computer scientists, just as a history degree mostly prepares students to be historians. The idea is not that every student will become an academic— few do—but that the initial training in this direction will prepare students for varied pursuits. When the world changes, Erat argues, the student who studied CS will have the creativity to “learn how to search, how to integrate things.” But for the student who just used AI to make programs, he said, “It’s going to be impossible.”
Conversely, CS professor Lin Zhong thinks Yale’s core CS curriculum is “stuck in the 1980s.” He wants students to develop the AI expertise that they would need as professional software engineers. “If your student[s] don’t learn how to use [AI], they lose their job,” he said. Students in Zhong’s Computer Systems Design course earn extra credit for using AI creatively to do their homework.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a6m5puxjmwuwxhuviabkhg67/bafkreidr3hlf3v5bi3c4dwzguxvi2khyjm4tmr5unm4funrdwyqjgvys2m)
