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Judith Gal-Ezer Pull Quotes
Judith Gal-Ezer is Professor of Computer Science at the Open University of Israel. Prof. Gal-Ezer is an outstanding researcher in computer science education (CSE), whose work has had a widespread impact in the areas of high school curriculum, and research in advanced areas of computation. She is the 2007 recipient of the SIGCSE award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education.
This webpage gives excerpts taken from the interview of Judith Gal-Ezerconducted on the 9th of March 2007 in Covington, KY by Barbara Boucher Owens The entire interview and transcript are also available from here.
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Judith's Website
Open University, Israel
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"I loved learning right from the beginning. I really loved it. I loved doing my homework. Unbelievable, but I really loved it. And I was a very good student. I met my elementary school teacher a few weeks ago; she told me ... that I was the first in Israel in the exam that we had to take when graduating elementary school." Link to this audio snippet in new window "When I graduated elementary school my father thought that I should go out working, or learn something like becoming a secretary or whatever. Why should I go to high school, if I was going to become a housewife anyway?" "I went on the academic reserve, so that I could study first and join the army later. I joined the army right after graduating and went to the computer unit. That started my relations with computers. That is how I went on to the doctorate program in seismology. It was still not anything to do with computers. I worked in programming in the army [in] COBOL. While ... doing the doctorate -- it was in seismology, I wrote these huge programs in FORTRAN." "I felt that I really taught mathematics to the engineers who were not interested at all. They wanted ... the solutions which should be a number. I tried to do my best to teach them the beauty of mathematics. It was applied mathematics, not pure mathematics, but I thought there is the beauty and [I wanted] to really make them love it, and I think I succeeded." "I think rigor is one of the things I would center on, not give up, going into details, really understanding what you are teaching and what you are learning. " "My biggest challenge was and still is to convince that computer science is a science." |
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