Computing Education Research Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

My activities in computing education these days are organized around two main projects: Defining computing education for undergraduates in the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and Arts (see earlier blog post referencing this effort ); Participatory design of Teaspoon languages (mentioned most recently in this blog post ).

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STEM Next

DECEMBER 19, 2022

From a Week of Computer Science to A Year of Possibilities: Five Ideas to Take into 2023. We celebrate the incredible effort that made Computer Science Education Week 2022 a resounding success. Check out our How-to Guide for activities along with resources to advocate for computer science in your community.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. Between 2010 and 2021, the share of white non-Hispanic children fell to 45 percent of public school students, while the share of Hispanic children grew to comprise 28 percent. Meanwhile, changing demographics of students in U.S.

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Ellipsis Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

To get computer science into the classroom, you need resources, community support, and a plan. CodeVA , a nonprofit dedicated to building computer science infrastructure, is are experts at this. We’re making sure that computer science truly is “for all,” through an equity lens.

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National Science Foundation

JULY 5, 2022

Though women were once at the forefront of developing the disciplines of computer programming and software engineering (Berkeley School of Information, 2021), the computer science (CS) workforce in the US for the past three decades has become a field of mostly White and Asian men.

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Ellipsis Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

To get computer science into the classroom, you need resources, community support, and a plan. Read on for inspiration as you plan your computer science implementation! We train teachers to teach kids to code through advocacy, teacher professional development , direct student programs, and research.

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2023

As Latino children make up a growing proportion of public school students in the United States, they’re also facing unique challenges. Education researchers now know that Latino students were dealt an outsized blow to their learning by the coronavirus pandemic. Read the first part here. I know where they're coming from.

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ED Surge

APRIL 27, 2023

Some researchers are exploring one that might sound trivial but actually could be quite thorny: What should these computer-generated educational assistants look and sound like? Mayer believes that as the computer-generated voices get more lifelike, the impact of voice tone, “gender” and other features will become more significant.

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Futurum

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Plugging in: directly linking the brain to a computer. Published: Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) link the brain directly to external computers, allowing users to do something just by thinking it. In recent years, BCIs have moved from science fiction to something that could have real potential. How do BCIs work?

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ED Surge

JUNE 22, 2023

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology think they may have a way to keep the chatbots honest. ChatGPT doesn’t care about facts, it just cares about what’s the next most-probable word in a string of words,” explains Sandeep Kakar, a research scientist at Georgia Tech. It has problems saying, ‘I don’t know.’” So Ashok K.

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ED Surge

APRIL 24, 2023

This project was guided by Anni Kumar, a seasoned educator and head of the computer science department at Vikas Bharati Public School. Students researched and chose an AI model that was appropriate for the problem they were trying to solve. EdSurge: How did you get students started in using AI to design solutions?

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Computing Education Research Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Both Barb and the Lifetime Service to the Computer Science Education Community awardee, Simon, earned their PhD’s later in life, both within the last 10 years. So, I’m doing a five minute lightning talk on Teaspoon languages as provocation to come talk to me about this approach to integrating computing into non-CS subjects.

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Computing Education Research Blog

JULY 12, 2021

The Danish Informatics curriculum is unique for its focus on four competence areas: Digital empowerment which describes the ability to review and critique digital artifacts to ask where the strict demands of a computational system may not serve well the messy world in which humans live. programming languages) and infrastructures (e.g.,

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STEMe

MARCH 31, 2024

Predicting someone’s life seems like an unrealistic idea to the general public. But as it happens, Danish academics have been working over the past few years to figure out how to apply computational science to forecast when a person will die. Asking the question, "Is the human life predictable?"

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Cool Cat Teacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Meanwhile, I'm rapidly adding art literacy to my computer classes so that students have the language to make effective AI artwork generation accessible. For example, I've loaded my AP Computer Science Principles textbook into Bing Chat Enterprise. If AI is used for research, I require two things: 1.

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Computing Education Research Blog

JULY 17, 2023

After we got the go-ahead to start developing PCAS (see an update on PCAS here ), I had meetings with a wide range of liberal arts and sciences faculty. I’d ask faculty how they used computing in their work and what they wanted their students to know about computing. No, no —- my students build websites.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2023

To everyone else, though, those and many other scholarly publications are locked, or can only be read by paying hefty per-article fees. The typical open access model makes scholarly articles free to the public by charging authors a processing fee to have their work published in the journal. Now it's life of the author plus 70 years.

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Computing Education Research Blog

JULY 7, 2023

My main activity for the last year has been building two new courses for our new Program in Computing for the Arts and Sciences (PCAS), which I’ve blogged about recently here (with video of a talk about PCAS) and here where I described our launch. The ACM/IEEE Computing Curriculum volumes weren’t going to be much help.

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STEM Next

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

You will learn about the latest research, resources, and new toys to support STEM play with young girls (and all young children). Close the gender gap in computer science. You don’t have to spend a lot to inspire a future computer scientist who makes breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence or designs Apps for social good.

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Futurum

JUNE 29, 2023

Dental discoveries: How is dental research improving oral health? Dental scientists at the Iowa Institute of Oral Health Research at the University of Iowa , USA, are studying various aspects of oral health and healthcare, to improve dental practices and keep our teeth and mouths healthy. How do bacteria cause periodontitis?

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Futurum

APRIL 27, 2023

In phishing attacks, attackers may gain the victim’s trust by impersonating friends, co-workers, authorities or official sites,” explains Dr Gang Wang, a computer scientist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. How do computers protect us from phishing and deepfakes? You have won our top prize!’

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JULY 20, 2023

Published: In a world where so much information is stored digitally, cyber attacks that hold computers hostage can be incredibly damaging. A cyber criminal installs malware on a computer system, which blocks access to the computer and all the data contained on it. Can cyber insurance combat cyber crime?

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Differential treatment is an example of how economic theories can shape public policies and individual’s opportunities. Regardless of whether differential treatment is considered fair, the efficiency rationale gives researchers and policymakers another way to look at how and why public policies should consider socio-economic factors.

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Futurum

AUGUST 16, 2022

At the University of East Anglia in the UK, Dr Oli Buckley’s research project is combining computer science and social science to answer these questions. TALK LIKE A COMPUTER SCIENTIST. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 19, 2022

This project is investigating how computing, the internet of things and data science can generate information that people can use to make their future places healthier. DATA SCIENCE – encompasses preparing data for analysis, including cleansing, aggregating and manipulating the data to perform advanced data analysis.

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Computing Education Research Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Last year, Tammy Shreiner and I received NSF funding to develop and evaluate computational supports for helping social studies teachers to teach data literacy and computing(see post here ). We have a chapter in the new book by Aman Yadav and Ulf Dalvad Berthelsen Computational Thinking in Education: A Pedagogical Perspective.

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Futurum

JANUARY 31, 2023

At Durham University in the UK, Dr Sownak Bose is using techniques from computational cosmology to uncover the mysteries of the early Universe. Simulations and observations Computer modelling has revealed that properties of the early Universe were strongly dependent on the properties of dark matter.

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

To investigate these questions, a team of researchers from across the world combined their skills and expertise to perform some intriguing experiments. “We We wanted to see whether there were enough consistent features in each category for the computer to be able to accurately categorise any one image.”

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Smore Science

MAY 28, 2021

For computer scientist Dr. Nuria Oliver, taking on such unsolved problems means finding the right people, asking the right questions, and not being afraid to try. In college, Nuria chose the specializations with the most computer science. Or a whole country? How would you even get started? Image Credit : Nuria Oliver.

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National Science Foundation

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The biases are notably stark if schools are divided out by minority enrollment, as public middle and high schools with more than 50 percent White students have only 2 percent of mathematics teachers and 1 percent of science teachers that are Black ( National Center for Science & Engineering Statistics ). making up 6.1

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Futurum

JANUARY 25, 2023

Her research is keeping our food safe to eat by modelling the spread of a bacteria called Listeria. This ‘digital twin’ is like a computer-game version of the facility that includes the building and all of its equipment and workers. Her research can therefore help all industries to protect their workers while maintaining production.

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STEM Education Guide

JANUARY 29, 2023

Throughout his career, Dr. deGrasse Tyson’s research has focused on cosmology, stellar evolution, galactic astronomy, bulges, and stellar formation. In 1962, Johnson manually confirmed complex orbital equations that had been created and implemented by a worldwide network of computers.

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Futurum

MAY 25, 2023

Tweet Share 0 Skype Reddit +1 Pinterest 0 LinkedIn 0 Email We work with so many inspiring people who are conducting interesting research projects and making exciting new discoveries. Some of the best researchers struggled academically at school and university. This public policy changed my life,” he says.

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Futurum

MARCH 28, 2023

Though there is a long path ahead, his research into why we make the decisions we do is helping to pave the way for such machines in the future, by applying these cognitive processes in artificial systems. Ultimately, good science has a lot to do with playing and exploring, and I’m able to do that with my research and the people around me.

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Futurum

MARCH 16, 2023

Their interactions with autonomous systems – whether as drivers, technicians, researchers or consumers – will define an industry.” For example, NASA’s programme of space exploration has contributed to a wide range of computing, imaging and material technologies.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 6, 2022

BIOINFORMATICS – a subdiscipline of biology and computer science concerned with the acquisition, storage, analysis and dissemination of biological data. Protecting this rainforest and understanding more about the life located within the Amazon region is of particular importance to researchers like Dr Guilherme Oliveira.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MAY 4, 2023

Outline of: Fantastic Figjam Makes Brainstorming and Collaboration in the Classroom Better Sponsor: Research Quest Introducing Tom Mullaney What is Figma? Now is the time to sign up for Research Quest from the Natural History Museum of Utah. Now is the time to sign up for Research Quest from the Natural History Museum of Utah.

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