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by edmondlau
3093 days ago
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There's for sure a tricky balance on what fits into a CS education. I remember when I was at MIT (oof, over a decade ago), many project-based CS courses where students were just put into teams and expected teamwork to just happen. Sometimes people got along, and the project would go fine. Other times, not so much. I know I certainly wasn't very well-equipped to handle tension or to have hard conversations about fair distribution of work. And back them, I ended up just avoiding them. Knowing what I know now, even a single lecture on tools for more effective teams or for having hard conversations or giving feedback would have made those projects SO much more valuable in terms of being learning experiences. Given that effectively using your CS education will involve collaborating with other people to some degree, I do believe that giving more emphasis to the non-technical skills that play a big role in your career would have a hugely positive impact. |
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I guess my point is more that primary school really should've prepared you for this: Group dynamics and how to handle these "group tensions" is more of a basic learning skill that we should be developing very early on.
I'm not arguing that this is a useless skill to teach, more that it's far more expensive and much less effective for MIT to be teaching you these skills and not MyTown elementary/middle/high school.