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.
128
questions
4
votes
3answers
90 views
CSEd.SE and CSTA
To what extent should the standards of the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), a US-based professional organization for computer science educators, inform what is on-topic in this community?
...
2
votes
4answers
78 views
Question about IDE features
After looking at the comments and the votes, I believe that this question warrants a discussion. As I don't want to preference my own thinking above others in the community, I'll put my thoughts in ...
3
votes
2answers
54 views
Questions that don't have one answer
This isn't really specific to this board, but Stack Exchange in general.
Are all questions expected to eventually have one response tagged as the answer? What about cases where there are several ...
6
votes
5answers
109 views
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, ...
1
vote
2answers
18 views
Broad tags make it difficult to write a good wiki
We currently have 3 pages of tags. Some of them have a wiki, some don't. However, some are (as I find it) difficult to describe well in a tag wiki.
Examples are security (It is not so clear what ...
1
vote
3answers
61 views
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. ...
6
votes
3answers
70 views
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 ...
15
votes
7answers
701 views
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 ...
6
votes
1answer
39 views
Voting on questions
I have noticed that we have a few questions with more answers than up votes.
Seems to me that if the question is good enough to take the time to write an answer, that it's probably also good enough ...
7
votes
3answers
288 views
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 ...
13
votes
5answers
498 views
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 ...
5
votes
2answers
67 views
Marketing and publicizing CSE
In light of Robert's recent comment, we need outreach. I just wanted to collect a group of targets. I'm aware of
http://reddit.com/r/compsci
http://reddit.com/r/CSEducation
https://edu.google.com/...
2
votes
3answers
47 views
Tag synonyms collection [closed]
There are a few tags that are duplicate (and so I think should be made into synonyms):
theory and cs-theory
design and design-thinking (I'm not sure about this one, actually.)
If more appear (when ...
6
votes
2answers
73 views
Rename OOP tag?
We currently have a tag for object-oriented-paradigm. Since OOP is conventionally defined as "object-oriented programming" (and is a programming paradigm), should the tag reflect as much? Would it ...
4
votes
3answers
74 views
Can we replace the "elderly" tag?
It feels like adult-education might be a better fit for our site, unless we expect that retirement facilities will be a focus here.
The question, for reference:
Programming curriculum for senior ...
-8
votes
2answers
96 views
Should the title still be Computer Science Educators? [closed]
I believe that they're aren't that many people out there who are interested in a site that is only for Computer Science Educators. Personally, I'm a Java student, and my interest rate in this site is ...
9
votes
3answers
82 views
Questions simply seeking ideas
What kind of game (in Scratch) would require use of a list?
It is clearly too broad, but finding great examples is also entirely central to what we do as educators. How could a question like this be ...
4
votes
2answers
46 views
Lesson plan evaluations/reviews?
Should we allow/endorse questions asking for feedback on a lesson plan/lab/other class activity? For teachers, having peer review on various aspects of designing a course could be very helpful and ...
1
vote
3answers
68 views
Questions about education on Computer Science Stack Exchange
There is a number of interesting questions about education in Computer Science that were asked in CS Stack Exchange, and didn't receive much attention, or got poor answers. My question is, should they ...
6
votes
4answers
83 views
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 ...
10
votes
2answers
106 views
Language A v. Language B (v. Language C...)
We've now had two questions address this issue:
What can Snap! do that Scratch cannot?
Scheme vs Haskell for introducing functional programming
I can see further questions coming down the line in ...
5
votes
1answer
63 views
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 ...
1
vote
2answers
43 views
Should the undergraduate tag be destroyed? [duplicate]
Currently there is an undergraduate tag. This tag has 1 question. I believe that this tag could be made much more useful by setting a skill level rather than a grade level. There could be an undergrad ...
0
votes
1answer
59 views
No accepted answers so far
We need a model of question that can have real answers. While a teacher community is a wonderful (and very sorely needed!) thing, how can we encourage questions that have actual answers?
Edit: ...
8
votes
2answers
75 views
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, ...
0
votes
2answers
49 views
Peer reviewed stuff
Right now, we are in the early stage of this site. How do we go around deciding who reviews what stuff? For example, I added an excerpt for the java tag and it said ...
13
votes
5answers
197 views
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?
7
votes
2answers
95 views
Objectivity and this site
This site, as an education site with educators, is likely to end up soliciting many questions that come down to simple advice. (namely What language should be first used to introduce coding?)
How ...
