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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Learning by Wholes
David Perkins is a senior professor of education at Harvard who has done a lot of super-applicable, general-audience writing. I just finished his book Make Learning...
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Delivering a Technical Course to Busy Developers
At work, I'm experimenting with how to deliver a technical course to my fellow employees in such a way that participants succeed and our team doesn't have to put...
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Six Months On, Six Months Off: My Experience of Maternity Leave in Tech
Today, my second child, Henry, turns one. I went on maternity leave for six months when he was born, which means I have also been back for six months. I was a grad...
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Getting Better at Ruby for #AdventOfCode2017
Because I'm a computing educator, I don't write code every day. I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss it. So when I heard about Advent of Code late 2017, I knewEric...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
GHC17 / Teaching Literature with Interactivity
Any time I go to a conference and see the word 'learning' in a session title, I get excited. Even better when games are involved. So I was already positioned to...
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GHC17 / Changing of the Guard: Welcome to the New ABI President and CEO
At the opening keynote of this year's Grace Hopper Celebration, eighteen thousand technical women got to meet AnitaB.org's new President and CEO, Brenda Dardencheck...
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How We Learn: A Book that Understands the Research and Brings it to the Masses
There's a lot of research out there on the theory of learning, so you'd think we'd all know the tricks by now. Unfortunately, due to the relative inaccessibility...
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When Feedback Makes You Cry a Little
Feedback really is a gift. But feedback can also be hard, both to give and to get. I moved into a leadership role a little over a year ago, and got my first hard...
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Review / Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom
While visiting a branch of our city's library system we don't often find ourselves at, I browsed the tiny section on education. I found Invent to Learn by chance...
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Why I Prefer Processing as a First Language to Teach
Once upon a time, almost 5 years ago, I wrote a post about Python vs Processing as a first language to learn. It became my only post to appear on Hacker News and...
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A Growth Mindset Workshop
I recently gave a workshop on the growth mindset with first year computer science students working as part of this amazing program. It went well, so it seems worth...
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GHC16 / What Are Tech Tools Doing That The Best Diversity Initiatives Aren't?
How can software help companies recruit and hire more diversely? Erica Joy Baker, Laura I. Gomez, Stephanie Lampkin, Liz Kofman, and Aline Lerner tackled this question...
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GHC16 / Building a Better Classroom: Lessons from Ed-Tech
One of the panels I attended at this week's Grace Hopper Celebration featured women from various companies engaging in ed tech, whether as their sole purpose or...
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GHC16 / Lyndsay Pearson on Valuing Inclusive Game Design
Invited technical speaker Lyndsay Pearson spoke at Grace Hopper this week about inclusive game design. Lyndsay has, as she puts it, grown up with The Sims, having...
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HLF2016 / Spotlight on Preethi Srinivas: HCI Researcher Improving Coordination and Communication in Hospital ICUs
This blog post originates from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Blog. The 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum is dedicated to mathematics and computer sciences, and takes...
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The Low-down on Speaking at GHC
So you're speaking at GHC16. What do you need to know? How can you prepare to be the best you can be? How do you calm your nerves?!Although I wasn't lucky enough...
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HLF2016 / Spotlight on Hana Khamfroush: Research Associate in Wireless Communications and Networking
This blog post originates from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Blog. The 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum is dedicated to mathematics and computer sciences, and takes...
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HLF2016 / Spotlight on Helen Wauck: HCI Researcher Studying Spatial Skills Training with Games
This blog post originates from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Blog. The 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum is dedicated to mathematics and computer sciences, and takes...
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How to Be a Leader, Shopify Style
Self-actualization, that thing at the top of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs: “what a person's full potential is and the realization of that potential.” Shopify cares...
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