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Why Don't Languages Support Multimedia All the Way Down?
It's a hallmark of CS thinking, to be able to shift levels of abstraction down to the bytes. Why do programming languages make this so hard to teach students?
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Our Big Idea: Open Social Learning
Imagine a Facebook where the point is for students to study together, not trade pictures and jokes. Imagine a World of Warcraft where students earn levels and points...
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The Impact of Console Games in the Classroom
A summary of some interesting findings relating to the use of console games in Scottish primary and secondary school classrooms.
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If You Want High School CS, Require Undergraduate CS
Pushing computer science classes into the high schools is a top-down approach. If there was required computer science in undergraduate education, the high schools...
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The Long Road to a Seat at the Table
Computer science is still a new discipline compared to the rest of STEM. It will take a while for people to know what a "computer scientist" is in the same way...
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A Successful NY Celebration of Women in Computing!
A recap of our recent New York regional Celebration of Women in Computing.
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Stats: We're Doing It Wrong
A summary of the mistakes researchers make when analysing likert type data and what the correct methods should be.
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New York Celebration of Women in Computing
A preview of the upcoming New York Celebration of Women in Computing, which is designed to bring the experience of the Grace Hopper Celebration to students in a...
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From 'Must' and 'Unsuitable' to Design Guidelines in Computing Education
Rhetoric in education tends to be politicized and polarized, and computing education is no different. Research in computing education might learn from design-based...
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Learning Through Twitter
Commentary on a recent study which evalauted the impact of Twitter on student engagement and grades.
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Explaining Science and Engineering
As I have followed the international news regarding the Japanese disaster, I have been struck by the challenges each news organization has faced in explaining technical...
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TeachScheme! Using Mathematics to Teach Programming
Matthias Felleisen and a team of computer scientists have developed the TeachScheme! Project, which provides high school teachers with courseware and other tools...
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At the NSF CE21 Meeting: We Have Such a Long Way to Go
The NSF CE21 Community Meeting highlighted the opportunity that computing has to catch up with the rest of STEM on education issues.
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Let's Teach Malware When It's Ready: The Purpose of Undergrad CS
Ledin's call for teaching malware to all undergraduate students conflicts with my understanding of the purpose of an undergraduate CS degree.
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What 'Beginning' Students Already Know: The Evidence
Detailed data collection at ETH Zurich over eight years shows what entering computer science students already know in computer usage and programming.
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Peer Instruction For Seeing What Students Know (and Don't)
Peer Instruction is an important pedagogical approach that is promoted by physics education researchers. I'm trying it for the first time in my CS class, and it's...
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Let the Feds Know Your Thoughts on K-12 Computer Science Education
A federal program that invests in information technology research and development asks the community three sets of questions related to making K-12 computer science...
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Teaching Kids to Feel the Math With Computers
Why are students still calculating when they could be understanding? Now that computers are everywhere, how should math education change?
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Works in Progress: MIA
It is time we extracted a sample of cultural DNA from computing's history and engineered a new generation of contemplative, informal workshops. After gestation,...
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