Computing Education Research Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

This semester, I’m teaching two brand new courses. I’m team-teaching with Steve Abney, a computational linguist. Research in PCAS We’re starting to publish some of what we’re learning from PCAS. It’s an unusual computing education research paper because we’re making an argument, not offering an empirical study.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. Though some argue that mathematics is culturally independent, I can say from experience that it is anything but.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. Instead of traditional direct instruction, PBL in math encourages students to explore, discuss and understand mathematical concepts by solving problems collaboratively.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

That call started the years-long process of reworking how the university’s life sciences department teaches math. This ultimately led to a new introductory life sciences math course, Mathematics for Life Sciences (the LS 30 series). And the class seemed to be filtering out women and minorities from progressing in the department.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2024

When Pierrce Holmes entered ninth grade, his school put him in 9C, a lower-level algebra class. Reflecting on his more recent experience as a policy analyst for RAND Corporation, a public policy research organization, Holmes doesn’t think it makes much sense that he had to hunt down the chance to try more difficult math.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Today, because of the changes in education, the use of games to reinforce learning, to teach, and to engage students in their own education has become one of the most effective tools to bridge the gap between school-based and remote learning. It simply means teachers include games in their lesson plans to teach curricular concepts.

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Cool Cat Teacher

APRIL 10, 2023

This podcast provides practical tips and strategies for teaching financial literacy to middle and high school students. Now, let's teach financial literacy this month! Teach students the things that matter during financial literacy month and beyond! This show's guest is financial literacy expert Brian Page.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

This is especially important with multi-player games like Minecraft (you will close the system at school, but that may not be the case in the student’s home). Describe research you did to make your Minecraft world more realistic and workable. You’ll put long hours in researching, studying, managing, and few will thank you.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. Poor teacher support and inadequate training, researchers suggest, may be contributing. Is 2/7ths larger than 4/11ths?

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National Science Foundation

MAY 15, 2024

The decision to remain a science or math teacher, or to continue teaching within a particular school, is closely related to sense of identity (Ware & Kitsantas, 2007). Each teacher was at a different high school or middle school, enabling cross-site comparisons.

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2023

One program has set out to teach computational thinking (CT) and coding skills in a problem-centered approach, fostering a student-driven learning design. Such a mindset change can eventually produce a more innovative learning and teaching approach across other areas.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Calculus is a critical on-ramp to careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Researchers tapped alternative models of calculus teaching that have shown evidence that they work, according to Kramer. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models.

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National Science Foundation

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Struggle is a regular part of mathematics class: students struggle to get started, to carry out a process, to express misconceptions and errors, and with “uncertainty in explaining and sense-making” (Warshauer, 2015, p. Generating Mathematically Productive Struggle.

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National Science Foundation

MAY 26, 2022

Implementing equitable mathematics instruction is an ongoing, collective commitment that must be made by teachers, schools, districts, and beyond to ensure that each and every student has access to high-quality mathematics instruction. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), 2020b, p. Introduction.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2024

She says she’s not a math person, but she was able to pass her high school math classes without too much trouble, earning Cs. In the classroom, researchers don’t know much about what works for anxiety, Ganley says. But Ganley suggests that the research doesn’t support any blanket statements. It’s given her severe anxiety.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 10, 2023

The teaching profession has our own version of these nerdy individuals, called technology teachers. School lore probably says they can drop a pin through a straw without touching the sides. Students researched online as often as in the library. This article got lots of reads last year, so am republishing with updates.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking. What are the equity and ethical considerations when it comes to AI use?

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Computing Education Research Blog

MAY 25, 2022

In February, I was invited to give a lecture at the University of Washington’s Allen School. The U-W CSE department had been thinking about making a push into computing education research. CS Education research dates back to the late 1960’s (see the history chapter that Ben du Boulay and I wrote ). What I do these days (e.g.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 3, 2021

There’s always been something mystically cerebral about people in technical professions like engineering, science, and mathematics. The teaching profession has our own version of these nerdy individuals, called technology teachers. School lore probably says they can drop a pin through a straw without touching the sides.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Every week at the Nysmith School in Herndon, Virginia, Philip Baselice breaks out a game to teach his class about key world events. Baselice teaches history to middle schoolers, and game-based simulations have been part of his teaching arsenal for the last nine years, ever since he first tried it. “I

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Computing Education Research Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

She’d heard that I was interested in programming for teaching non-CS subjects, and that’s what she was doing. Elise is a mathematics education researcher who has been studying how students come to understand counting problems. Few students in the US learn programming — less than 5% of high school students nationwide.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 25, 2023

These same reports show that teachers and students stand to gain these additional benefits: Learners get a chance to apply mathematical solutions to everyday problems Teachers can stimulate real-life situations where regular people and professionals use math formulas to solve problems. public schools provide students with computers.

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Scientix

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Students’ perception is one of the most important nuances in primary school. Keywords: elementary school, STEM, STEM method. STEM is derived from the abbreviation of the capital letters of the words Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (Gonzalez and Cuenzi 2012). Why is STEM important in primary schools?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Alex Briggs, has an interesting take on summer school, why you should start thinking about it now–in the Fall–and how to do that. I think you’ll find this interesting: Helping students to select the right summer school. Research their interests.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 2, 2022

Why tech and the teacher who manages it in your school has become more important than ever. There’s always been something mystically cerebral about people in technical professions like engineering, science, and mathematics. The teaching profession has our own version of these nerdy individuals, called technology teachers.

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STEM Sport

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Teaching science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to middle school students presents a unique opportunity for educators and administrators. In this article, STEM Sports® offers tips for teaching STEM to middle school students in the classroom, in afterschool programs, at home, or in summer camps.

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CTE Learning

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In the rapidly evolving landscape of education, the integration of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) curriculum at the middle school and high school levels has emerged as a transformative force. You cannot teach engineering or technology without including science and mathematics.

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CTE Learning

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In the rapidly evolving landscape of education, the integration of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) curriculum at the middle school and high school levels has emerged as a transformative force. You cannot teach engineering or technology without including science and mathematics.

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ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2023

In his former school district in California, San Ramon Valley Unified School District, Rahul Bir noticed that the schools seemed inundated by technology. Schools have picked up all these new tech tools but it’s not always clear how teachers should actually use them. It pointed back to something he’d noticed before.

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STEM Education Shopping

MAY 15, 2023

Is Cue robot research the future of STEM education? Today, I want to talk about a topic that’s been buzzing around the education world lately – Cue robot research. As someone who has spent years in the field of STEM education, I’ve seen how technology can revolutionize the way we learn and teach.

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Futurum

JULY 5, 2023

How are advances in technology improving dietary research? However, this is very time-consuming for both participants and researchers. However, teaching TADA to differentiate between foods with similar appearances, such as a bowl of mashed potato and a bowl of porridge, and to recognise foods that come in many forms (e.g.,

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STEM Education Shopping

MAY 16, 2023

Today, I want to talk about a topic that’s been buzzing around the education world lately – Cue robot research. Is Cue robot research the future of STEM education? As someone who has spent years in the field of STEM education, I’ve seen how technology can revolutionize the way we learn and teach.

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STEM Sport

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In the innovative world of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), working cohesively as a team is essential. Increasingly, educators and school administrators are recognizing the value collaboration brings to both learning environments and professional settings.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Research from McKinsey revealed that, on average, K-12 students lost up to four months of mathematics and four months of reading progress in the last school year. With newly distributed federal stimulus funds now in hand, school districts nationwide are poised to set learning recovery plans in motion.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 10, 2017

STEM is the acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Engineering is why traffic flows smoothly on crowded roads and why bridges survive despite massive loads of trucks, and is the foundation for much research into global warming and alternative energy. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years.

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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 ). Teachers (and students eventually) will be learning foundational CS content — not necessarily the ones we typically teach in CS classes.

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Futurum

JANUARY 12, 2023

What skills do you need to succeed in school? Students with low self-confidence in their abilities are more likely to struggle in school and withdraw from university. STEM — Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Published: Your academic identity plays a key role in your education. TALK LIKE A PSYCHOLOGIST.

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