Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Suitable age range tags
What is the best way of tagging questions to identify the combination of experience level and age range which a question is focused on? Ideally in a way which will be internationally relevant?
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Can this site succeed? — encouraging more users and questions
What can we do to encourage more users to ask more questions? There are so many great ones sitting in our proposal waiting to be asked. The definition phase brought up some great topics that could be ...
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The Question Sandbox
This question should serve as a sandbox for in-progress questions. Any question submitted here will automagically be shown in the Guidance Office. We need this space because it's hard to actually work ...
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Topic Challenges
We need more questions
It's been pointed out by numerous people on many occasions that we need more questions. The graph of questions per week over time has remained almost flat, but despite that, ...
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Topic Challenge #02: Being Selfish
(I'd like to give a special thanks to ItamarG3 for his help writing up this challenge. Please give him a round of applause, everyone!)
"In case of emergency, air masks will drop from the ceiling. ...
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Topic Challenge #01: the Review Spew
“The time has come,” the Meta said,
“To speak of many things;
Of Challenges, of brand new tags
Of S.E. shirts as bling.
And why some lesson didn’t work
And making worksheets zing.”
&...
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Site scope thoughts
As we continue through our public beta phase, site definition remains rather important. The decisions made in the next few weeks will guide the site for a long time to come. They will also help us ...
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Accepting Nominations -- Who should moderate this site?
Ideally Moderators are elected by the community, but until the community is large enough to hold a proper election, we will be appointing three provisional Moderators to fill those roles.
We need ...
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The list-nature of [lesson-ideas]
This has been bothering me for quite a long time, but I've had some trouble articulating it. We have already had quite a lot of discussion about list questions, and have historically been fairly ...
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How We Use Twitter
As some of you may be aware, we started a Twitter account to promote the site this past weekend: @cs_educators. I am currently managing it, but I would love your input on how we use it: I want it to ...
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Site scope refinement: internet safety
I more or less accept this question is off topic:
https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/questions/461/teach-children-living-in-the-online-society
In the question's defense:
I asked about websites, ...
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Introducing... the [introductory-programming] tag cleanup!
The idea of teaching programming to beginners in pretty simple. But it's the simplest ideas that are most heavily abused. In that spirit, I think we need to monitor the most used tag on the site: ...
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Are questions about self-learning on-topic?
Are questions about self-learning on-topic?
They are on-topic on Mathematics Educators to some extend. Maybe the two discussions on their meta site might be of use. I also found a discussion on Area ...
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How should we treat list questions?
Questions have been voted down, put on hold, or closed for being "list questions" without an objective answer. I think this is a problem, for a few reasons:
The rule is inconsistently applied. This ...
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Making the help center more helpful
We previously discussed the possibility of updating the help center here. Since we can do it, and we have mods who will do it, what do we want to put in there?
When drafting new sections, feel free ...
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Introducing the new tags, [curriculum-review], [lesson-review] and [materials-review]!
Quick note that I will delete in a few days: This is a proposed question guide. At some point, I will make a second posting of this to be converted to a community wiki. This page is for feedback ...
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What does a new member need to know on this site?
As a newcomer here, not knowing the culture, it is easy to make some mistakes. Due to the complexity of the site it is also sometimes difficult to find the information you need when you need it. This "...
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Site promotion needs to be, well, promoted
So, I think we missed an opportunity. Wouldn't this have been a good place to promote the site (I look for something that says we can't or cannot, so I have no idea whether it would have been allowed ...
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Should language tags exist?
For tagging, would it be useful to have language tags?
My perspective would be that we should have an introductoryprogramming tag (which we do) and also have general field tags where it's beneficial, ...
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Creating Community Ads
I've created this post to track our community ads as they appear on other sites. The answers can be used for proposing new designs, the highest voted one will go on other sites (manually edited in ...
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Meta-tagging based on age/grade/course/ability
Notice: Now that we've chosen a proposal, we are discussing implementation as a part of this meta question. Please have any further discussions there.
Way back in the early days of our site (well, a ...
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Summer is coming
Here is a (distilled) conversation largely between @SeanHoulihane and I on the chat today:
Sean Houlihane: @thesecretmaster Lots of questions is to be expected in the first few days - several coming ...
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Implementing education-level based tagging
This is a continuation of the discussion on this question. At the time of this writing, this answer was highest voted, and so the implementation of it will be discussed here.
For reference, here is ...
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A student on the educators site
I'm a student, and I'd like to ask a question of CS educators - where I can take online courses that are on the cheaper side of things and will (probably) be able to go on my transcript. This leads to ...
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Help center might need a few additions
Now that we're in public beta, it might be a good time to think about expanding parts of the help center. For example the what's on topic page isn't as helpful to new users as it can be.
Additionally, ...
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Development Environments used in Education
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Development Environments useful for educators
Java
Eclipse is a full featured development environment. It is open source....
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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SITE::Scope.resolution->choice(Student.access->block(net))
A new question has again raised the issue of the scope on our site.
In this case it's about some possible form of internet blocking affecting the student access to resources. Other questions which we ...
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Is a question about the nature of education topical?
This question is unlike anything we've seen before:
Difference between a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree in CS
Is it topical?
Traditionally, we've focused on HOW to teach, with occasional ...
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Adding education level tags? [duplicate]
In browsing the site today I noticed a number of questions where the first comment was "what level of education" (or similar).
We should add tags to help answer that question and further categorize ...
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Is it necessary for a student to be able to map concepts in a language to some lower level concepts? [closed]
This is, I think, an experiment with this forum. It feels like a meta discussion to me, rather than a true question for the main site. It also gives me an opportunity to state some things about my ...
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Tag proposals #1 [closed]
Some of these I agree with, some I disagree with, but they came up in chat recently, so I am putting them here:
Change teaching-analogy to examples, in line with matheducators
Merge code-style and ...
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Site scope refinement: high level student problem
We have a question that has attracted a few close votes. I don't know all the voters' reasons for that, but one comment suggests one possibility:
Nothing about your question seems specific to CS. ...
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Are questions asking for recommendations on which educational program to choose off-topic?
I recently encountered this question: Studying Computer Science Remotely Through Reputable University
It's a fairly detailed question basically asking for a recommendation for a university program. ...
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Mailing Lists for Educators
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Mailing lists for Educators
SIGCSE SIGCSE members are subscribed to both an information distribution list and a discussion list.
APCS The College Board ...
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Organizations for CS Educators
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Organizations for Educators
SIGCSE SIGCSE is the Special Interest Group for CS Educators within the ACM. Membership is inexpensive. SIGCSE and associated ...