Shimon Schocken is the IDB Professor of Information Technologies and founding dean of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Israel. I want to thank my friend and contributor to israelseen, Shelly Schreter for making me aware of this TED X lecture. רכיבות התקווה של שמעון שוקן
After 10 years at NYU, he returned to his home country to help found IDC Herzliya — Israel’s first private, non–profit university. In 2005, along with Noam Nisan, he developed a new approach to teaching applied computer science described in the bestselling MIT Press book The Elements of Computing Systems. Courses based on the book are taught in many schools ranging from Harvard University to the University of the People.
Schocken embraces his public role as an educator. He serves as chairman of the Computer Science Education committee in the Israeli Ministry of Education, and enjoys developing innovative courses and open source software tools to support science education. He uses his other life passion, mountain biking, to teach adolescent boys in Israel’s juvenile detention centers valuable life lessons through challenging bike rides in remote locations. He was co-organizer and program chairman of TEDxTelAviv 2010.
Quotes by Shimon Schocken
““I’m used to algorithms and data structures and super motivated students, and nothing in my background prepared me to deal with a raging, violent adolescent in the middle of nowhere.””
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““It helps to ignore the immediate obstacles and raise your head and look around and see how the vista around you grows. … Or you can also look back in time and realize that you’ve already conquered steeper mountains before.””
Shimon Schocken on the Web
