Teaching program promotes technology literacy
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Computer science should be as important as reading or writing in schools, argued a University of New Mexico professor at a Wednesday morning forum of Albuquerque’s business leaders.
Technology literacy is the goal of the New Mexico Computer Science for All teaching program. Melanie Moses, an associate professor of computer sciences at the University of New Mexico, leads that program and gave a short update on its progress at the Economic Forum, a twice monthly meeting of Albuquerque’s business and community leaders.
“Billions of people are using computers,” Moses said. “This is transforming us in ways we can’t quite grasp. We’re all adjusting to this new reality that computers really do run our world.”
New Mexico Computer Science for All, Moses said, is a program that preps educators in middle and high schools throughout the state to teach computer sciences. As part of the program, UNM also offers a dual credit for students who complete a course in computer sciences. The high school course, Moses said, teaches students how to code in a language called NetLogo.
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