Computer Science

A conversation with Sonia Garcha demonstrates the need to go beyond digital literacy and ICTs while designing interventions in CS education for India’s classrooms, and why we need to keep both teachers’ agency and the perspective building of education leaders at the center of our work.

Dr Vijay Borges, Dr Chintan Vaishnav and Himanshu Gupta (IAS) share their experiences of leading governmental initiatives in the STEM/ICT/CS education space.

In a wide-ranging discussion on STEM/CS education, Akshay Kashyap and Nirbhay Lumbde provide the funders’ perspective on these themes and share how equity and program effectiveness are growing areas of focus and action.

In this interview, Venkat Natraj Ramasamy discusses about teaching underprivileged children computing through digital literacy and computational thinking.

In the “Resources and Reviews” section, Nikhil Agrawal and Aastha Maggu share a useful and well-curated set of teaching-learning resources for computing education.

In the “Insights” section, Heera Basnet captures practitioners’ voices from the ground.