Computing Education Research Blog

MAY 17, 2022

Barb Ericson has been gathering data on the Advanced Placement exams in Computer Science for a decade. Researchers can request the data. After using public $ to develop #APCSPrinciples and claiming increased CS 'diversity', they have now removed access to the data. The archive is gone, and the 2021 data are not posted.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Here are some ideal subjects for left-brain dominant individuals: Electrical or Computer Engineering Electrical or computer engineering is a perfect fit for left-brain dominant individuals. Electrical or computer engineers design, develop and test electrical systems or computer software.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The pandemic has largely changed public perceptions about the appropriate use of technology for young people, argues Katie Davis, associate professor in the information school at the University of Washington. If you think of a computer, an analogy to a computer, they have just smaller CPUs than we do as adults.”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

As a lecturer at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, where I teach econometrics and research methods, I spend a lot of time thinking about the intersection between data, education and social justice — and how generative AI will reshape the experience of gathering, analyzing and using data for change.

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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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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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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. TALK LIKE A … COMPUTER SCIENTIST. Brains and computers share lots of similarities. How do BCIs work?

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STEMe

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The efforts of the researchers who use it to improve the stock market cannot go understated, yet their real work remains shrouded in obscurity. However, with the development of computers, quantitative analysis became particularly striking as computers could perform calculations millions of times faster than any human.

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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

MARCH 11, 2024

But they still like print, and they still like to go to the library, according to a survey of Gen Z and Millennial public library use and media consumption released by the American Library Association last fall. They also did ethnographic research at two Ohio public library branches. Ninety-two percent check social media daily.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

A coalition of 14 education organizations, helmed by the nonprofit Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute, released sample guidelines earlier this month that walk teachers and administrators through potential pitfalls to consider before using an AI tool in the classroom or for other tasks. In Michigan, it was a team effort.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

My student stood next to my desk, computer resting on both hands, his eyes wide with a mixture of fear and excitement. As I reached for his computer to read the final entry in his conversation with HoldenAI, I noticed how intense the interactions had become and I wondered if I had gone too far. “I think I’m talking to Salinger.

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Smore Science

APRIL 26, 2022

As a public health entomologist, I focus on insects like mosquitoes, bed bugs, and hornets. That means I do a lot of public speaking! . While I was in Senegal, I had the opportunity to work as a research assistant on a project studying a tick-borne disease. It was great training for a career as a public health entomologist.

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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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MAY 19, 2023

Gutenberg Project This site provides thousands of digitized books, audio recordings, DVDs/CDs from the public domain (or out-of-copyright). These are great for all ages to not only read but research topics that might have been well-covered years ago but not so much now (like primitive tribes). Access this catalog via the website.

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MAY 20, 2022

Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. This site provides thousands of digitized books, audio recordings, DVDs/CDs from the public domain (or out-of-copyright). This includes not only public libraries but colleges and universities. Open Library. Unite for Literacy.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Around this time, learning scientists picked up on the educational potential of gaming and began running research studies, largely with National Science Foundation (NSF) dollars. MacArthur pulled from both the academic and commercial communities, and important research started to emerge from university consortia and non-profits.

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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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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. Deaf Kids Code facilitated a project-based learning opportunity in a deaf program in Chicago Public schools hosted by Cook Biotech.

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Computing Education Research Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

I don’t get to teach Media Computation 1 since I moved to the University of Michigan, so I haven’t done as much development on the curriculum and infrastructure as I might like if I were teaching it today. But using Jython for Media Computation is so 2002. Where is Media Computation going today? Con keynote talk.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Rashawn Ray That’s the question a team of researchers at the think tank Brookings Institution are asking, through a new project that will probe the opportunities and barriers virtual reality offers in higher education. Or it might mean taking research off campus. A Digital Divide — Or Bridge?

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Smore Science

APRIL 26, 2022

As a public health entomologist, I focus on insects like mosquitoes, bed bugs, and hornets. That means I do a lot of public speaking! . While I was in Senegal, I had the opportunity to work as a research assistant on a project studying a tick-borne disease. It was great training for a career as a public health entomologist.

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Smore Science

APRIL 26, 2022

As a public health entomologist, I focus on insects like mosquitoes, bed bugs, and hornets. That means I do a lot of public speaking! . While I was in Senegal, I had the opportunity to work as a research assistant on a project studying a tick-borne disease. It was great training for a career as a public health entomologist.

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Publication Data analysis Biology Communications 52

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JULY 25, 2023

Computers & Mobile Devices Computers and mobile devices like smartphones and tablets are the primary way learners access the internet. Where this isn’t an option, they can use school computers and tablets—a viable option as 94% of U.S. public schools provide students with computers.

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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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JANUARY 8, 2021

As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems which I share with you. Find Public Domain Images. libraryspot.com — there’s a big uptick in using the internet for research this year over last year. Back to School Tips.

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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. The work I’m doing these days is computing education, but it’s not in the mainstream of CS education — I focus on computing education for people who don’t want to study CS.

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ED Surge

APRIL 13, 2023

As expected, though, the new nonprofit will also continue to manage the Open edX platform , the open-source system that hosts edX courses and can also be used by any institution with the tech know-how and the computer servers to run it. That might include doing research, building tech tools or helping manage organizations.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2022

The year 2021 pushed us all to learn new lessons in unexpected ways, from deciphering public health statistics about vaccines and masks to refreshing our memory for the Greek alphabet thanks to emerging COVID-19 variants. Coursera Is Now a Public Company. Young Research into how to hold students’ attention in online courses.

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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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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Ray Salazar has been teaching high school Journalism and English in Chicago Public Schools for over twenty years. Maxey has spent over two decades in public education, both in the classroom and at the administrative level. School districts and educators have responded in a variety of ways.

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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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OCTOBER 31, 2023

There is still much we do not know about the disease, and researchers are working hard to learn more about what causes it. Researchers, medical professionals, and scientists all over the world are trying to understand what triggers the disease so that new treatments can be developed.

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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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DECEMBER 11, 2021

This week, I’ll post my updated suggestions for three holiday activities that will get your computers and technology ready for the blitz of teaching that starts after the New Year. Adding new publications or items efriends would like to know about? FB has become a common resource for future employers when they research your background.

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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. As the original Code.org partner, they have led the charge in establishing computer science programs across the state of Virginia.

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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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