Reflecting on the Journey
"After helping with Coffee@CU, a site I worked on that is meant to make it easier to meet other people with similar interests to you, I made a personal goal to talk with a new person every week. Since there are so many unique people here, I wanted to make a better effort to get to know as many people as I could."
Will Essilfie CC'18
Regarding information and technological literacy
“Programming is becoming a fundamental part of every field. Algorithmic trading dominates finance, lawyers are using automated discovery tools, journalism often requires a solid grasp of statistics and programming to write data-driven investigative stories and small businesses increasingly need to control their web presences. We think programming is a form of 21st-century literacy. We think that everyone should have a basic grasp of programming that they [can] apply in their everyday life.”
Zach Sims
Regarding information and technological literacy
“[Teaching at Sci Academy] was my ‘aha’ moment as an entrepreneur. I had a dynamite school leader and a hardworking group of teachers all on the mission of closing the achievement gap. We had a strong school culture and our students were engaged in learning. Still, it felt cumbersome to track student progress. Teachers loved going from an old-fashioned gradebook to a new, streamlined web 2.0 tool. They loved being able to visualize student progress with charts and graphs. It opened up teachers’ minds on how to use data to help move students along faster.”
Jennifer (Schnidman) Medbery CC'06
Regarding information and technological literacy
“With the increasing globalization of assisted reproductive technologies, there are going to be new dilemmas and challenges that come with the development of all these new technologies. I am hoping that through the MPhil and my research, I will be participating in and generating dialogue that can be a collaboration between medicine and sociology about the effect of assisted reproductive technologies on people’s lives and how we can go about implementing them equitably in a changing world.”
Yuntong Ma CC'12