[pjc50]

Education in IT is so continuous that people don't recognize that it's happening. Every use of google counts.

You can either have a dynamic field or a mandatory curriculum. Once the curriculum is fixed, the field advances at the speed changes can be pushed into the curriculum, which is at best annually.

[arkitaip]

lmfao, pedagogical education is its own discipline and becoming a competent teacher takes proper education and training. Googling how to teach ain't going to do shit for you.

[barry-cotter]

There's no evidence that education degrees make teachers more effective. If an entire degree in pedagogy has no detectable effect on student outcomes how can it help become a competent teacher?

> It's easier to pick a good teacher than to train one: Familiar and new results on the correlates of teacher effectiveness

> Neither holding a college major in education nor acquiring a master's degree is correlated with elementary and middle school teaching effectiveness, regardless of the university at which the degree was earned. Teachers generally do become more effective with a few years of teaching experience, but we also find evidence that teachers may become less effective with experience, particularly later in their careers. These and other findings with respect to the correlates of teacher effectiveness are obtained from estimations using value-added models that control for student characteristics as well as school and (where appropriate teacher) fixed effects in order to measure teacher effectiveness in reading and math for Florida students in fourth through eighth grades for eight school years, 2001-2002 through 2008-2009.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227414368_It's_easi...

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/pepg/MeritPayPapers/Chingos_Peter...

[pjc50]

Every time the "how did you get into programming" discussion comes up, a large chunk of people on HN report being autodidacts. It's far more widespread in programming than any other kind of profession or speciality. I feel this hasn't been seriously investigated or taken into account.

Not googling how to teach, but skipping the entire "teaching" process altogether.

[arkitaip]

The post is about teaching CS, not learning it. They are related but different disciplines.