Tag: umi-sci-ed
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ALerT, NFR, and youth involvement
NFR (the Norwegian Research Council) is recognizing the importance of involving the youth in shaping future ICT research and innovation. Last year an expert panel involving students from 6 upper secondary schools has given input to NFR in connection to the IKTPLUSS call “Data and services everywhere”. Today, NFR reports on a workshop that was…
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Sarah Serussi about girls and programming
Sarah Serussi is writing her specialization project about girls’ views on programming and technology. Through Kahoots, interviews and questionnaires she is hoping to find some reasons as to why programming as a subject is generally less appealing to girls versus boys.In 2008 the percentage of female applicants to the Computer Science master’s degree programme at NTNU…
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Visitors from Georgia Tech
Barbara Ericson and Mark Guzdial, from Georgia Tech, are world-leading experts in computing education and outreach activities in K-12 schools. They visited our department for IDIovation and we had the possibility to showcase some of our work in the area of education and Internet of Things for schools. See a report from the visit in…
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Official opening of ExCITed
On February, 1st we joined the official opening of ExCITed, the Norwegian Center for excellence in IT education. The event was attended by circa 100 participants, including the Norwegian minister for Education, the Director for the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education, and NTNU rector. Read more about it in the university newspaper (in…