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PCAS Expansion, Growth, Research, and SIGCSE 2024 Presentations

Computing Education Research Blog

PCAS Expansion I’ve blogged about our first two courses, COMPFOR (COMPuting FOR) 111 “Computing’s Impact on Justice: From Text to the Web” and COMPFOR 121 “Computing for Creative Expression.” Research in PCAS We’re starting to publish some of what we’re learning from PCAS. (Check out our Instagram posts on the front page!)

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How One District Takes STEM Learning to the Next Level

ED Surge

Level Up Los Angeles represents an inclusive, districtwide initiative aimed at integrating esports into educational contexts, utilizing platforms that support collaborative and creative learning. This required students to not only read instructions but also to analyze information and synthesize research to communicate their ideas effectively.

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It’s Time to Ditch the Idea of Edtech Disruption. But What Comes Next?

ED Surge

Entrepreneurs and developers try to make the best possible drug to treat students, while administrators and researchers (myself included) stand guard, testing and validating the treatments. This doesn’t mean this kind of research should stop. Within this technocentrist frame, education is sick and edtech is like medicine.

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Elevating Intellectual Growth: Problem Solving Activities for Gifted Students

STEM Education Shopping

Additionally, I will discuss how problem solving activities can unleash creativity and provide strategies for tackling complex problems. Research has shown that engaging in puzzle-solving activities can improve cognitive abilities, such as logical reasoning, spatial awareness, and pattern recognition.

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What Brain Science Says About How to Better Teach Teenagers

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In the past, Galinsky says, researchers and educators have focused too much on portraying the emotional turmoil and risky decision-making that is typical in adolescence as negative. So we have 20 years of research that shows that these soft skills are more predictive of success in school and in life. I don't have a Yes or No reaction.

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If We’re Serious About Student Well-Being, We Must Change the Systems Students Learn In

ED Surge

But while working with schools and colleges across the globe as we conducted research for our book , we realized that most interventions don’t address systemic issues causing mental health problems in the first place. Indeed, a meta-analysis of research on this issue found a correlation between homework and achievement.

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Teaching Children to Argue in Science

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Specifically, we can intentionally teach skills and practices related to productive ways to engage in arguments. In fact, educational researchers have noticed that addressing elements of argumentation in formal learning environments can help students (NRC, 2012). These tools are inexpensive and can be found on Amazon.