Time+Place: Thursday 29/12/2011 14:30 Room 337-8 Taub Bld.
Title: Chamsa" and Computer Science
Speaker: Avi Cohen http://www.CSIT.org.il
Affiliation: Inspector -In-chief Computer Science & Information Technology, Ministry of Education, State of Israel
Host: Yossi Gil

Abstract:


What is education?  What we should teach or learn?
Why people debate about education?  What is computer science?
Why computer science is so important (if it is important) to society?

Short Bio:

Avi Cohen, has a B.Sc.T.E in electronic engineering  from Tel-Aviv
University and a  Ph.D. from Anglia Polytechnic University at the 
Ultarlab UK.  Since 2001 he has specialized in instructional technology 
and Internet studies (Stateless Programming).

Presently, he is the director and Inspector-in-chief of Computer Science 
and Information Technology at the Ministry of Education in Israel. In this
capacity he is responsible for the Computer Science studies, curriculum,
matriculation exams, and authorization of CS teachers.

For the last 23 years he has been a high-school teacher in Computer 
Science and Electronics Engineering. He wrote three textbooks for 
high-school students (programming =96 CS0,1,2). Recently he has been 
teaching in the Department of Information Science at Bar-Ilan University.  
His primary research interests are XML Web Services and Web development, 
as well as Internet stateless programming.