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Evaluating the Success of Mentoring Programs
Can HCI evaluation methods help to assess the effectiveness of mentoring programs for women?
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CS Education Gets Congressional Attention
Two Congressman introduced two pieces of legislation -- The Computer Science Education Act and the Computer Science Education Week Resolution -- to offer reforms...
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What Do Scientists and Engineers Need to Know About Computer Science?
As computational science and engineering becomes more common, it becomes important to ask what should all scientists and engineers know about computer science to...
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Computer Science Left out of National Academies Report
The new draft framework from the National Research Council on "science, engineering, and technology" makes no mention of computer science.
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Valuing High School Computing Teachers
Thoughts on why high school computing teachers are so important and how we can help them.
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Research Summers
Research challenges us to pose new questions, choose exploratory avenues carefully, and be frugal and wise stewards of the financial trust invested in us.
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Albion College Eliminates Computer Science
Albion College decides to eliminate the computer science major due to budget cuts and low enrollment, because it's not really part of 21st century work.
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The Complicated Issues of Computing Education in Qatar
The ACM Education Board visited Qatar at the beginning of May. At Qatar University, 70% of the students in CS are women, and those we met are hungry to produce...
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Consumerization of IT and Research
When a corporate, government, or university IT department of the 1970s debated an upgrade to its IBM S/370 mainframes, it is doubtful that the IT director was in...
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Encouraging Girls to Study Geeky Subjects (part 2): Programmable Bracelets
Some thoughts about novel ways to attract girls to study computing: e-textiles and computational crafts.
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Cleaving Computer Science Into New Degrees
Computer science is becoming too broad to fit under the tyranny of a single bachelors degree. Cleaving the BS in CS into new degrees is a natural growth path.
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Connecting Computing Education Research to Practice
The SIGCSE 2010 keynotes by Sally Fincher and Carl Weiman suggest how we connect research to changing practice. It's complicated! It's enculturation.
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Encouraging Girls to Study Geeky Subjects (Part 1): Emotionally Intelligent Tutoring Systems
The first in a couple of articles in which I look at some ways of encouraging girls to engage with technical subjects; this focuses on an emotionally sensitive...
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Time to Rethink Computer Science Education: The (Social) Web Changes Everything!
Let's rethink computer science education in face of Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and beyond. The Internet have changed everything we know about how computing is done. It's...
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Computing and the Common Core
Computer science education gets a boost from an historic document released by governors and education leaders in the United States and you can show your support...
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SIGCSE 2010: Keywords, Final Thoughts
The keywords for SIGCSE 2010 include computational thinking, parallel programming, compilers, introductory CS courses, and Initial Learning Environments like Alice...
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SIGCSE 2010: Carl E. Wieman Keynote
Physicist Carl E. Wieman’s keynote speech at SIGCSE 2010, "Science Education for the 21st Century: Using the Insights of Science to Teach/Learn Science," focused...
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SIGCSE 2010: Sally Fincher v. Barbie
Sally Fincher’s keynote focused on the importance of representation, such as how computer scientists represent their work, how they represent their work to each...
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SIGCSE 2010: Day One
A CS conference is only as good as its selection of keynote speeches, and SIGCSE 2010 offers a formidable cast of keynotes, including a Nobel Prize winner.
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