2009–2012
1,217 posts
2012 328
December 2012
- Applying New Research to Improve Science Education by Carl Wieman: Value of Competitions?
- 2012 in review
- Computing Industry: Put 2 and 2 together! Recruit more women!
- MOOCs – The revolution has begun, says Moody’s: The Rich get Richer
- On the Value of Combining Education and Engineering
- The Bigger Issues in Learning to Code: Culture and Pedagogy
- Definitions of “Code” and “Programmer”: Response to “Please Don’t Learn to Code”
- Will.i.am: I want to write code!
- This changes things: UK universities in online launch to challenge US
- Is learning a programming language like becoming bilingual?
- Research questions on MOOCs: Who’s talking, who’s completing, and where’s the teaching?
- A new resource for CS teachers doing Peer Instruction
- Academics and Venture Capitalists: Not close vs open, but evidence vs speculation
- Stanford’s Most Popular Major Is Now Computer Science (#CSedWeek Fact)
- New Masters of Arts in Teaching Engineering (MAT) Program at Tufts: For CSEd too? (#CSedWeek)
- Barbara’s Annual AP CS Analysis for #CSEdWeek: 2012 was A Great Year!
- Vint Cerf urges computer science to be included in EBacc
- Calling all US High School CS Teachers: Please give us your thoughts!
- Happy #CSEdWeek! Join the Twitter Conversation Tuesday!
- Comparing MOOCs and books
- Pay gap, lack of role models to blame for ICT gender imbalance in Australia
- More Universities Should Teach Computer Science and Not be Shut Down
- Computing is among the best-paying jobs for women, but that might not be enough
- How did math and science education grow out of math and science departments?
November 2012
- A new MOOC Platform: Class2Go, Stanford’s New Open-Source Platform
- In USAToday: Women band together, make inroads into tech
- Draft ICT Programme of Study now available for comment
- How do we measure the value of a degree to society?
- Crazy Travel Begins: NASA Goddard, MIT CSAIL, Stanford, and Tufts
- Learning Science and Engineering Professional Masters Program at CMU
- The BlueJ/Greenfoot Team Are Hiring at University of Kent at Canterbury
- A MOOC is not a Thing: Seeking a Translation
- edX offers a CS1 MOOC via Massachusetts community colleges
- Setting an Agenda for Multidisciplinary Research for Online Education
- CS2013 Ironman Draft Available
- Motivating learning: Is it ever about the badges?
- The UK Version of Computing in the Core
- 10 Universities to Form Semester Online Consortium
- Berkeley talking about compulsory computing
- Ernst & Young Predict Australian MOOCopalypse
- Our Napster is Udacity: Quality Doesn’t Beat Access
- CU now has a 2nd computer science degree program
- Announcing the Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP) Alliance
- Why we want more girls interested in computing
- Seeking Java-based Intro CS Classes for Experiment
- £3m investment in Computer Science and Digital Literacy in Wales
- Google looking for an algorithm for keeping women
- Where are the graduate CS Education programs?
- “Florida is killing Computer Science”
- How students use an electronic book
- Please pledge for CSEdWeek 2012 — whenever your event occurs
- Choices aren’t Decisions: Implications of Hewner’s Theory of CS Major’s Decision-Making
- The Need for an Industry-based Java Exam: Guest blog post by Barbara Ericson
- Learning to Teach Computer Science: The Need for a Methods Course : CACM
- How do CS students make educational decisions? Previewing Mike Hewner’s PhD Defense
October 2012
- Rebooting Recruiting to Get More Women in Computer Science: Chronicle
- Essay calling for digital skills to be added to liberal arts disciplines
- CS needs more AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellows: Chat with Becky Bates
- BBC News – Computer science teachers offered cash incentive
- Most Americans want more online learning, and don’t expect to learn as much
- Introducing TryComputing.org: Resources for students and teachers about computing
- 2.5% increase in software engineering salaries in one year: Seed corn looking more attractive
- Microsoft proposes a Race to the Future to improve CS Education
- Going Postal: The Crisis in Higher Education from Correspondence Schools to MOOCs
- U. Texas invests $5M in edX to increase completion rates: Justified?
- Attacks on mathematics education reform: If it’s on the Internet, it must be true
- What I have learned about on-line collaborative learning
- Moving the Needle Across Georgia in K-12 Computing Education
- How Computerized Tutors Are Learning to Teach Humans – NYTimes.com
- NYU using Codeacademy to Teach CS: Who got fired?
- The Blue Collar Coder may be Stuck in the Shallow End
- Woodie Flowers at MIT on edX: Hostile Takeover or Helping Hand?
- CS Unplugged and Middle-School Students’ Views, Attitudes, and Intentions Regarding CS
- Fight the MOOCopalypse!
- Seeking K-12 teachers for study on learning App Inventor
- Interview with Alan Kay: Dangers of CS design patterns
- Who takes a MOOC (geographically)?
- Role for research universities in promoting STEM education
September 2012
- Learnable Programming: Thinking about Programming Languages and Systems in a New Way
- Planet CAS: Blogs About Computing At School in the UK
- New ACM Classification System doesn’t get Computing Education
- Who completes a MOOC?
- Are computing educators professionally and legally required to change and improve their practice?
- New National Academies report on Discipline-Based Education Research
- Female CS PhD’s research areas
- Website that takes your online classes for you
- New NSF Initiative: Graduating 10,000 New Engineers and Computer Scientists
- Outrage over Udacity Statistics 101: But is it really worse than others?
- Brief Trip Report on ICER 2012: Answering the global needs for computing education research
- Survey on Scaling K-12 Computer Science Education: Please Complete!
- A Question that Everyone should Ask their CS Professors: Why do we have to learn this?
- Does Google get that teachers innovate?
- SAT is less predictive for females?
- Essay on what it will take to make MOOCs work
- Teaching intro CS and programming by way of scientific data analysis
- Blogging and tweeting at #icer2012
- Teaching CS in Schools with Meaning: Contexts and problems come first
- Winning a six figure salary through learning the right computing technologies
- What’s an Internet engineer?
- UK CS degrees rising while secondary school CS testing drops: Result is too little computing literacy
- Heading Down Under for ICER 2012: 4-13 September 2012
- Access is not the same as learning: Videos don’t go on the Transcript
August 2012
- How do we evaluate the value of face-to-face contact?
- IEEE CS Video about Media Computation and Georgia Computes (and me)
- Perplexity over engagement: How to get kids in an enduring STEM relationship
- Asking the Question in Higher Education: Do You Love Teaching?
- New kind of spam? Snagging legitimate comments
- Sebastian Thrun bets education over driverless cars
- Proposal in Texas to move higher ed classes to MOOCs
- How do we teach students to use e-books differently than books?
- Experience drives learning: Implications for CS Ed
- Are MOOC Students Cheating Or Mastering the Material? « Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP
- How White and Male the AP CS Really Is: Measuring Quality as well as Quantity
- ICER2012 Preview: Surveying the Whole State of introductory undergraduate CS in Georgia
- ICER2012 Preview: Adapting the Disciplinary Commons for High School CS Teachers
- Report on “Computational Freakonomics” Class: Olympics, game consoles, the Euro, and Facebook
- Khan Academy offers kind-of-scaffolded computer science learning: Doing away with the teacher
- Daphne Koller’s TED Talk: What’s new about MOOCs
- Cost of college remarkably stable « Gas station without pumps
- National Academies Report Defines ’21st-Century Skills’
- Can and should schools spur social mobility?
- My Fair Physicist? Feminine Math and Science Role Models Demotivate Young Girls
- Surveying Media Computation Students: Self-Efficacy, Worked Examples, Python, and Excel
- Thanks to many for IEEE CS 2012 Award
- Report from the Open University on Innovating Pedagogy
- Barbara Ericson wins A. Richard Newton Educator Award
- A Professorship in Gender Studies in Computer Science
- MOOCing an analogy between teachers and John Henry: But maybe it’s students?
- Elections staff confused compression with encryption: Lost info on 2.4 million voters
- Change in Focus of Innovation as a Function of Time and Culture
- Computing as a requirement for everyone, from a collegiate reporter
- What makes for a course that works as a MOOC?
July 2012
- How does higher education funding relate to teaching quality?
- Science Education Research: Misconceptions are suppressed, not supplanted
- Rising salaries for computing majors: Tech firms scour college campuses for talent – WSJ.com
- On Not Leaving Academia « Beki’s Blog
- Educational Kit from CMU Can Turn Artwork and Crafts Into Robots
- Who funded the Internet? I care that you don’t know what it is!
- Universities on the Defensive: What is it we do
- Pixel Spreadsheet in a Media Computation class: Exposing data abstraction with Excel
- What would Constitute Evidence that Open Education is helping a Global Economy?
- Larry Cuban on “The technology mistake”: Confusing access to information with becoming educated
- The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation – Ian Bogost – The Atlantic
- Can We Fix Computer Science Education in America? | Techland | TIME.com
- Why the Internet Isn’t Going to End College As We Know It
- Georgia Tech will partner with Coursera
- Yum, Tasty Seed Corn: Where will we find the teachers?
- A Report on Worked Examples and Self-Explanations in Media Computation
- Math teachers critiquing Khan Academy math videos
- Tech Companies Announce ‘Girls Who Code’ Initiative – NYTimes.com
- Google Summer of Code has so few women
- How do faculty learn about and use Peer Instruction?
- Does learning occur differently with physical or digital print?
- Why CS graduates don’t teach, but it’s not inherent to CS
- Education is already Gamified: Dan Hickey on Badges
- The LaTeX of Interactive Publishing
- Yup, That’s What CS Textbooks Are Like
- CSU Alumnus First to Earn new Computer Science Teaching Endorsement
- Typography to describe iteration
- Period of transition: Stanford computer science rethinks core curriculum
- New conference: LaTiCE 2013 on Computing and Engineering Education
June 2012
- Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives 2013 in Oldenburg, Germany
- Online courses: It’s not about value, it’s about revenue
- The changes the University of Virginia must make: Support for Board of Visitors
- Inventing a Worked Examples and Self-Explanation Method for CS Courses
- Yay, College Board! 857 Desks Call Attention to Dropout Problem
- Ben Chun asks, “What is the CS Education ask?”
- Detroit firms, colleges create program to promote IT careers (The Detroit News)
- Tell Achieve that the Next Generation Science Standards Should Include CS
- E-mails show UVa board wanted a big online push: McLuhan rolls over in grave
- 25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web | Ars Technica
- How do we encourage retention of knowledge in computing?
- Good academic leadership as a model for good teaching
- Draft Standards Neglect Computer Science, Computing in the Core Coalition Says
- google-blockly – A visual programming language that generates JavaScript code
- Carl Wieman on Effective Teaching
- MATLAB and APL: Meeting Cleve Moler
- Stretching your mind: Arguing for multiple programming languages for designers
- Disappointing Support for new NRC Framework for Science Standards from P21
- Congratulations to Stephen Edwards and Virginia Tech: An endowed chair for innovation in engineering education
- Arguing against Computer Programming for All
- Next-Generation Molecular Workbench – HTML5-based Scientific Models, Visualizations, Graphing, & Probeware
- Huge (unofficial) rise in AP CS Test Takers
- Economic impact of educational research: Does computing education research matter?
- The new Core Standards for English Language Arts Literacy: Implications for Computing Literacy?
- BBC News – Google funds computer teachers and Raspberry Pis in England
- Let’s call It “Computer Science” AND “Programming”: The fat line where most people will be
- We need “Computing for Future Judges”
- A role for Udacity: Filling the holes from formal computing education
- Instructional Design Principles Improve Learning about Computing: Making Measurable Progress
- Interactive eBook from Runestone Interactive: A Python eBook with IDE and visualization built-in
- Barbara quoted in USNews on Summer Camps
- What do non-programming designers have to know? | Janet H. Murray’s Blog on Inventing the Medium
May 2012
- Be What’s Next! – A sentiment to drive computing education
- CalArts Awarded National Science Foundation Grant to Teach Computer Science through the Arts | CalArts
- Women leave academia more than men, but greater need to change in computing
- Visual ability predicts a computer science career: Why? And can we use that to improve learning?
- Next Generation Science Standards available for comment now through 1 June
- Why high-income students do better: It’s not the velocity but the acceleration
- Stereotype threat and growth mindset: If we tell students intelligence is malleable, are we lying?
- Defining: What does it mean to understand computing?
- NCWIT Pioneer Awards to two women of Project Mercury: Following their passions
- TEDxGT Video: Computing for Everyone — a 21st Century Literacy
- Science of Spatial Learning: Nora Newcombe at NCWIT
- We need to produce far more software developers than programmers: How do we change?
- Visual Programming Languages in the Browser: Scratch and Snap
- Dismal results for US science education « Gas station without pumps
- EdTech Magazine’s Dean’s List: 50 Must-Read Higher Education Technology Blogs
- Excel programming for non-programmers: How mental models are developed
- Fewer women in top U.S. tech jobs since 2010: Only half of survey respondents think it’s a problem
- K-12 CS education events: Professional Development and Research Workshop
- Big-D “Design” for education and online courses: Let’s build more and different
- Percent of Bachelors going to Women: Not getting better among Computing Disciplines
- Learning is about the failure and struggle, not the success
- Study Opens Window Into How Students Hunt for Educational Content Online: But what are they finding?
- How can we teach multiple CS1’s?
- Worldwide call to draw more women into computing
- Blog Post #1000: The Magic of Time — about making beer and reform
- Blog Post #999: Research Questions in Computing Education
- A computational biologist’s personal toolbox : What a scientist will really do with programming
- Collaborative Floundering trumps Scaffolding
April 2012
- What do scientists want in a programming language? New Julia language seeks to be the C for scientists
- Facts on women in IT careers
- Thinking about expression and ways of thought, and what happens to those who don’t C
- UFlorida maintains CISE research, but still merges departments
- Computer Science is Essential for Everyone – Forbes
- A CS Emporium would be wonderful idea: Efficient and Tailored Computing Education
- NSF Program: Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE)
- Designing a language for programming with musical collaborators in front of an audience
- An explanation for U. Florida’s CISE actions: A move towards Liberal Arts
- University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department, Increases Athletic Budgets. Hmm. – Forbes
- Do free and open learning technologies help the rich more than the poor?
- Udacity’s CS101: Who are you talking to?
- Massive open, on-line courses: With the faculty, or against the faculty?
- In the Chronicle: What counts as “programming”? Will it be different for “the rest of us”?
- Mathematics Awareness Month is Computational Thinking month
- The Rise of the ‘Brogrammer’: I won’t learn from you
- University of Florida to dismantle CISE department
- How to Teach Computing across the Curriculum: Why not Logo?
- American schools have never been better: A Journalism and Intervention Problem
- IB reclassifies CS as an experimental science
- How Not to Require Computer Science for All Students – The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Modern HyperCard for Today’s Schools: But Where’s the Community of Practice?
- We used to know how to teach CS in Logo
- A nice definition of computational thinking, including risks and cyber-security
- Call for participation in SIGCSE 2012 Doctoral Consortium
- Computer Science Transitions From Elective to Requirement – US News and World Report
- Practice is better for learning facts, worked examples are better for learning skills
- What we don’t know about going to distance education, and the challenge of comparing apples to apples
- Weekend newspaper coverage on computing for all, especially kids
March 2012
- Getting the level right in learning to be computationally literate
- Making a Media Computation class in MATLAB at UCSD
- Still seeking more AERA CS Education Reviewers
- Manufacturing jobs are programming jobs: We need CS in high school
- Secret Sauce of Successful Summer Camps
- Teaching 4,500 students to program ubiquitous computing: Mike Richards and My Digital Life
- Computational thinking, computational values, and academic freedom
- Tying the bow on “Georgia Computes!” and proposing the next step
- Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge has been updated
- No change: Males still dominate AP CS
- Nice List: Seven misconceptions about how students learn
- Women left CS because of masculinization of the industry and hiring practices
- Guzdial wins IEEE CS 2012 Computer Science & Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award
- A lesson from physics: Even lucid lectures on abstractions don’t work
- Teaching CS to everyone in Chicago: Baker Franke
- Stanford partners with Coursera to offer more online courses: It’s what the faculty want
- APM’s Marketplace: Why you should learn to code
- The Best CS Summer Camp Paper: Sustainable, Effective, and Replicable
- A Broadening Participation Conference: Understanding Interventions
- Could we replace all of CS1’s nationwide with one good on-line CS course?
- AERA now includes Computing Education Research
- Measuring Teaching: Gates Foundation
- A $35 computer for education: But it’s never been about the hardware
- Let’s do more on-line learning! But to raise graduation rates?
- CRA’s Nico Habermann Award to Lucy, Bobby, and Telle for NCWIT!
- Is Learning Computing Like Eating Vegetables?
- SIGCSE, Keynote #1, Fred Brooks. (Yes, THAT Fred Brooks.) « Nick Falkner
- Scratch Jr: Introducing Programming to Preschoolers
- Should anyone write an iBooks textbook?
February 2012
- Implications of CS-as-Business in High School for one Georgia county
- Desperate need for more expertise in computing, across sectors
- SIGCSE 2012 is this week in Raleigh!
- The Scientific Method is wrong: Scientists don’t test hypotheses, but build models
- Doubts of my students: Expert teaching is no better than good-enough teaching
- “Which College Majors Screw Over Women the Least?” Yay for IT!
- New US Bureau of Labor Statistics Survey now out
- Bret Victor’s “Inventing on Principle,” and the trade-off between usability and learning
- CS2013 Strawman Curriculum Standard now available
- Two CS Endorsement programs in Georgia!
- New PCAST report talks about SIGCSE
- Helping Everyone Create with Computing: Video of C5 Talk
- Using a Worksheet to Address a CS Education Problem
- Learning to code for Valentine’s Day: Same problems as everyone else.
- Computer scientists need to understand education research methods for CE21
- High school computing in the US is like the developing world
- Biggest challenge for CS10K: Recruiting the teachers
- New NRC Report on Pedagogical Aspects of Computational Thinking
- Obama’s Re-Election May Be Written in Code
- Aspect ratio for Web applications
- Fighting a reliance on computers, when it might be too soon for teachers
- Should colleges give credit for commercial courses?
- Colleges need to make sure students are actually learning – latimes.com
- Everyone needs to understand computing, even (especially?) Congress
January 2012
- The long tail may not hit a target: High school teachers
- Openness is influenced by cognitive abilities: Self-efficacy too?
- A Festival of (Musical) Algorithms
- Online CS courses: What does it mean, “willing to put in the effort”?
- New CE21 Solicitation: Research, CS10K, & BPC
- Claim: Average Taxpayers Are Heavily Supporting Elite Colleges
- Making iBooks vs. Making iBooks for Learning CS
- Do badges get in the way of learning to code?
- A conference on primary and secondary computing education research
- Thoughts on Code Year, Codecademy, and Learning to Code (with C5 Side Note)
- Response to Joanne–Wanted: Less Excuses And More Competitive Women
- Debating the ‘Flipped Classroom’ at Stanford
- The Royal Society wants every UK Child to learn Computing
- This is CS in K-12: Career & Technical Education
- Joanne Cohoon in US News on women in CS
- New curriculum for CS in UK Schools
- People do things even if they won’t be the best, or even great
- Creating a Peer Instruction network
- Learning to code as a New Year’s resolution
- An alternative to constructivist learning: Single instance learning without practice?
- Equality in school leads to system excellence: Boredom and failure, part 3
- The syntax problems in high school CS
- Big rise in AP CS test-takers in Georgia and in US
- Creating new models for on-line CS learning
- 2011 in review
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December 2011
- Top CSTA and Alfred Thompson Blog Posts of 2011
- Education Nation 2011: Why We Should Be Teaching More Computer Science Classes
- A data-based explanation as to why there are so few women in technology fields
- Claim: Mr. President, there is no engineer shortage, at least compared to China
- Figuring out what students want: Jobs’ approach was no market research
- Big growth in CS in NYC
- How sad: We have met the enemy of BPC
- Learning about Learning (even CS), from Singing in the Choir
- Ladies Learning Code seeks to close gender tech gap: How the teacher matters
- Teaching the On-Line Stanford class at UMass Lowell: Guest Post from Fred Martin
- Computer Professor Illuminates Concepts for Blind Students
- Teaching the teachers of end-user programmers
- The Greatest Potential Impact of Computing Education: Performamatics & Non-Majors
- What it’s like being the only black nerd in the room
- Technology changes what we teach — even in CS
- Edupocalypse Now: Removing the BS from the BS
- New book on integrating technology: The Learning Edge: What Technology Can Do to Educate All Children
- Fertile Ground in Africa for Computer Science to Take Root – NYTimes.com
- Graduation rates are still abysmal: What’s the expectation for open learning?
- Please PLEDGE on CS Ed Week!
- InfoWorld Programming trends: Education matters less, more JVM/JavaScript-target languages
- An AI music engine, as a new kind of instrument
November 2011
- Computer Science across the Curriculum – How do we get there?
- Is CS now “the hottest major on campus”?
- Trip report on Australia visit: The Higher Ed Times are a-changin’
- University writing its own textbooks: That’s so Open U
- After student complaints, Utah professor denied job
- Quality of Homework matters, if quality matters
- Picking a PhD Research Topic: For passion or curiosity, for funding, for job?
- NCWIT Sit With Me Campaign
- Making Research Careers More Family-Friendly: White House and NSF Announce New Policies
- Visiting Melbourne
- Senator recognizes the need for more computer courses
- No More Swikis: End of the Constructionist Web at Georgia Tech
- Technology can help Universities with specialized programs, not with undergraduates
- Launching the 2nd Annual #CSEdWeek!
- Tech companies won’t tell us their diversity data
- WSJ Coverage: Students Pick Easier Majors Despite Less Pay
- Trivia from Lion King supporting Media Computation
- Teaching-Oriented Faculty at Research Universities
- Slow pace of higher-ed reform costs STEM majors: CS needs context
- Women in Computing: Give us percent of population, not just number
- Why academics should blog, especially in small fields
- What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? How do we support failure, and rising above it?
- Does economic inequality in a nation influence cheating in computing class?
October 2011
- Not all Arduino uses are created equal: Context and gender
- 2011 McGRAW PRIZE IN EDUCATION to Mitchel Resnick for Scratch
- An AP Exam in Engineering?
- There is No Profit in Education, No Competitive Advantage to Better Learning.
- Helping with the OO learning curve: How to connect two objects
- There is gender in software, and there’s empirical evidence of influence on problem-solving
- CS Education Act aims to boost K-12 computer science education: It’s about time
- “We’ve got to teach kids to program, but not as a subject in isolation.”
- More than CS10K: 100Kin10
- International test scores are irrelevant for national competitiveness or number of STEM workers
- Are African Americans Surging in Computer Science?
- Learning how to prepare CS HS teachers: Why computer scientists have to get involved
- What if you built a Volunteer Run School of Education–and nobody came?
- Single-Sex Education Is Ineffective, Report Says – NYTimes.com
- NYTimes takes on Cognitive Tutors: What can we really prove with studies?
- Why Do Some People Learn Faster? Linking Dweck and EEG data
- Steve Jobs: ‘Computer Science Is A Liberal Art’ : NPR
- Fixing Our Math Education with Context
- Should we change Universities deeply to get more women in CS?
- Any cognitive benefit of video games? Video-game studies have serious flaws
- Who’s measuring the part-time students?
September 2011
- Teaching programming to those who don’t shoot: Give up on the shooters
- The Economist letters on how to improve UK CS education
- Launching C21U: What’s the point of the University, anyway?
- Congratulations to Richard Tapia, National Medal of Science recipient
- Pursuing universal computing literacy: Mozilla-as-Teacher, Everyone-as-Coder
- Open Education: “The whole model hinges on excellent assessment”
- We get the chance to beat the book: NSF CE21 funded CSLearning4U
- CS Education Act introduced into Congress
- Using Khan Academy to teach the rich kids is just not impressive
- White House Targets Innovative Education Technologies – ARPA-Ed?
- New Danish Computing Curriculum for Schools: Guest post from Michael Caspersen
- Google’s Eric Schmidt critiques lack of CS in UK education, and what the UK is doing about it
- Ed Week: A Teacher Finds Good in Testing
- Microsoft releases National Survey Findings on student motivation to study STEM
- Physics students grok that they need computing
- Interview with DeMillo on “Abelard to Apple” on how faculty need to change
- Teachers should not tailor information to different kinds of learners
- Georgia Tech’s Capacity Building Institute with ACCESSComputing
- OSS is led by an “elitist circle,” and newcomers don’t get access
- What corporate recruiters ask about computing students: It’s situative not cognitive
- UK CS graduates are more unemployed than average 4 years out, and fewer go into education
- Online-alone isn’t as good as online plus face-to-face
- You can now program the Finch robot from JES
- The role of single-gender schools in promoting STEM graduates
- Study: Some are born with math ability
August 2011
- Software is the modern language of science
- Female STEM faculty in community college have parity and are happy
- Back when women were over a third of computer scientists
- Beyond Interests to Values: Drawing African-American teens into CS
- Why U.S. Teachers Work the Most But U.S. Students Stay Average
- Programming is for entrepreneurs and thinkers–and coders, too
- Why we ought to teach Java: Computing education and social practice
- Rising grades in UK A-Levels, but not so much computing
- Some Media Computation Teaching Resources
- Stanford on-line AI course draws 58,000 — but is it real?
- App Inventor goes to MIT
- Eric Mazur’s Keynote at ICER 2011: Observing demos hurts learning, and confusion is a sign of understanding
- Indiana is hiring in CS Education research!
- Mark’s Trip Report on ICER 2011: Students’ experience of CS classes, and making compilers more friendly
- Are the professors there to please the students or tell them the truth?
- Google dumps App Inventor
- 4 Out of 5 in Community College Want to Transfer, Report Says – NYTimes.com
- Minority Rules: Only 10% of true believers can create a majority
- US human subjects rules might get much easier for CS Ed
- Heading to International Computing Education Research 2011 in Rhode Island: How CS students choose Threads
- H-indices and how academic publishing has changed: Feynman and Einstein just aren’t that impressive anymore
- Instruction makes student attitudes on computational modeling worse: Caballero thesis part 3
- What students get wrong when building computational physics models in Python: Cabellero thesis part 2
July 2011
- Adding computational modeling in Python doesn’t lead to better Physics learning: Caballero thesis, part 1
- 4-5 year old children seem to use the scientific method
- Women’s experience in undergrad engineering differs by race
- A History of College Grade Inflation – NYTimes.com
- NRC K-12 Science Framework ducks the question of computer science
- It’s not chronic poverty that hurts education — it’s the large percentage with any poverty
- Why does CS count towards high school graduation in Georgia?
- Engaging Students’ Interest, even with lectures and facts, Best Promotes Interest in STEM Careers
- No cost for cheerleading or band instead of CS? Offer remedial classes for those who missed CS?
- How are students learning programming in a post-Basic world?
- Explicit instruction prevents exploration — but will all students explore?
- Vocationalism, Academic Freedom and Tenure – NYTimes.com
- Yale U. Complains That Chinese University Press Plagiarized Free Course Materials
- New National Academies Report calls Science as important as Reading or Math
- It will never work in theory: New blog on empirical software engineering
- How do we fix Google? Correcting a private information source
- NCWIT database of CS jobs vs graduates per Congressional district
- Workshop on Peer Instruction Concept Tests in CS Ed
- Trip report on ITICSE 2011: Robots for girls, WeScheme, and student bugs in Scratch.
- Systematic Cheating Is Found in Atlanta Public Schools
- Is the U.S. doing teacher reform all wrong? Prepare teachers vs. Test students
- CS students need to learn to use Powerpoint effectively
June 2011
- Does Engineering in K-12 work? UK vs US
- The Internet is a playground for the affluent: Not a democratic classroom
- The High Cost of Preparing for Proposals
- It’s about getting more people in CS, of all types, and social media helps
- Guzdial off to ITICSE in Germany: Computing for Everyone, and CS Pedagogy with MediaComp
- Shrinking our turf: Defining CS out of Interaction Design
- Ceibal Project: A Country-Wide Gamble on Educational Technology
- Maybe it’s CS2 that’s wrong, not just CS1
- Using perceptual/pre-cognitive knowledge for better learning — of programming?
- Why is computing with media so rarely supported in programming languages?
- A brain training exercise that really does work — for 3 months
- Thinking Beyond the Bubble: The need for a real Sputnik moment for CS
- Can open learning digital repositories be sustained?
- Differential tuition for CS undergrads: Worth more, charge more
- The university versus the faculty — who reaps invention’s rewards?
- Hollywood Spurs Surge in Computer Science Majors – NYTimes.com
- Programming is so important that I need it in 3 days
- How only one path fails to help everyone succeed at learning how to code
- Telle Whitney on why we need more women in IT
- Congress complaining about the low cost of faculty development
- Blown to Bits: A good book, not as a sole APCS book
- Rethinking Human Capital in Technology–Based Education
- Wolfram on the importance of computing for understanding the world
- Folk-model security as an education contribution
- The Third Option: Sherry Turkle’s “Alone Together”
- Teaching and research can co-exist
May 2011
- Going to college for a job vs. for an education
- Reversing the flow: From context to content
- Billion$ aren’t enough to improve schools
- How to make science videos that work
- The room for higher-education growth is in the economic bottom-half
- There are no learning styles
- Where are all the women scientists? It’s not about the babies
- Student evaluations of teaching don’t correlate with learning gains
- Could you find the missing Hillary computationally?
- Call for Participation for C5 Conference
- Drill bits and Eclipse — it’s really all about the same
- If you want CS in High School, Require CS in College
- It’s in Science: Interaction beats Lecture
- Wallowing in CS:Principles Data
- It’s all about the app — or is it?
- It all sounds so good, until you study it
- A Computer Science Fair without Computer Science
- Struggling to Create the Mobile Campus
- Sometimes, Education is not about making it easier
- Not “Gamification” — it’s “Exploitationware”
- Students in CS like videos of Java coding
- Bill to establish a STEM Master Teacher Corps
- India Graduates Millions, but Too Few Are Fit to Hire – WSJ.com
April 2011
- The UK’s Register on new MIT Media Lab Director
- Do the Chemistry Profs care about teaching more than the Computer Science Profs?
- PyCon 2011: Python and Robots
- The PhD factory
- Mark visits with the CSTA Sock Monkey
- The best-researched CS textbook ever
- Supporting Creativity but maybe not Creation
- Python MediaComp book is #2 in CS1
- Computer science enrollments rebound, up 10% last fall – Computerworld
- Why should African-American men take the AP CS?
- Adviser loses job over research-vs-teaching arguments
- Intercultural Computer Science Education
- How other countries develop their teachers
- Show Me The Code
- New Draft K-12 Model CS Curriculum Available for Comment
- Motivating cognitive work with Pink’s Drive
- Guest Post: Eric Roberts on the Dangers of Escalating Enrollments
- Dr. Mats Daniels and the TTT Grook
- What I learned from working on the play
- Chinese International Conference on CS and Education Conference
- Barb’s Webinar for NCWIT and ISTE
- AERA: A different planet from SIGCSE
- Colleges Spend Far Less on Educating Students Than They Claim, Report Says – The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Girls-only computer class hits refresh on IT’s geeky-male image – The Globe and Mail
- Playing Telephone with Karlstrom Award Announcements
- Guzdial and Ericson win ACM Karlstrom Award
- Lack of women in CS is our problem to fix, regardless of cause
- Millions more to benefit from Greenfoot
- The role of computing education in the productivity paradox
- Incentives Offered to Raise College Graduation Rates – NYTimes.com
- Still Separate is Still Unequal
March 2011
- When test scores seem too good to believe – USATODAY.com
- Letter: Female CS concentrators misrepresented – The Brown Daily Herald
- CE21 Advice: Go beyond your classroom
- CMU “eliminating” object-oriented programming
- Impact of CS on female non-majors: Beyond a pipeline model
- Why we teach how linked lists are made, and how memory representations work
- A Definition of Computational Thinking from Jeannette Wing
- Visiting CMU: Historical Home of CS1-for-All
- White House Launches New Tally of STEM Education Programs – ScienceInsider
- Call for Participation in SPLASH Educators’ Symposium
- The role of the teacher in peer instruction
- MediaComp goes Nifty
- iPads for College Classrooms? Not So Fast, Some Professors Say. – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Students more interested in having fun than doing good
- SIGCSE Board: CS programs being canned or downgraded
- Ontological Categories in Computer Science
- Impact of increasing number of post-docs in CS
- Changing the Culture of Science Education at Research Universities
- Closing of the CS Ed Mind
- The advantage of computing goes to those who create, not those who use
- Contextualized computing ed works — it’s just not there
- Heading off to SIGCSE 2011!
- CE21 Meeting Materials now available
- CS Principles Pilot Interest
- Registration open for CS&IT 2011
- What is the influence of Teach For America?
- Changing CS1 doesn’t help recruitment
- Improve Computing Education: Take the More-than-Java Pledge
February 2011
- Call for papers: ACM SIGCSE ICER 2011
- Call for Participation for Second C^3 Conference
- Urgent: Please share your teaching change stories
- The university of the future
- Pagination is better than scrolling for digital texts
- HCI and Computational Thinking are Ideological Foes
- What’s the right format for CS Ebooks?
- Can focus on Video Games and Visual Effects enhance STEM education efficiency?
- Why college students drop out: It’s only partially about psychology
- The Male-Centric Culture of Gaming
- CU-Boulder: Eliminate journalism and create iSchool
- What’s wrong with online courses
- Researchers and Grant Makers Call for More Long-Term Education Research
- MediaComp Java from within the browser
- 7 Principles of Computational Thinking from Software Carpentry
- Psychology of Programming: A Great Old Resource made New Again
- Georgia Tech seeks new Chairs of CS and IC
- CE21 is all about evaluation
- More Students Fail AP Tests – WSJ.com
- When ordering matters: Why are other countries doing better in science than the U.S.?
- CS is for everyone: On having students realize that CS is not for them
- Does creating computer games impact girls attitudes toward computing?
- How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker
- Is State-Run Higher Education Doomed?
- Top Secret Rosies: Rediscovering WWII’s female ‘computers’
- How do you change your teaching practice?
- We need thinking, even more than STEM
- Using Worked Examples to improve learning on Loops
- How Not to Succeed in Science
- Launching ARPA-ED
- Lack of women in Computing is NOT due to discrimination: NYtimes and National Academy
- What is Already ‘First’
- Programming audio visually
- What’s the argument for becoming a computer science teacher?
- Finally, Programming Environments for Blind Students
- What counts as code to criticize: Software studies
- Maybe not-so-much for increasing enrollments
- The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted
- Science doesn’t need Universities
- Is 2011 the year of Scripting? 11 hot skills for 2011
- At the NSF CE21 Community Meeting: We have such a long way to go
January 2011
- The Art of Science Learning
- Closing down computer science at the Minnesota State University
- The decline effect and the scientific method : The New Yorker
- Taking a test helps with learning
- Computers are Systems, not Languages – Ian Bogost
- New Myro Languages
- Less than half of students at science competency
- New GaComputes Reports for CE21
- Teacher’s free-speech rights stop at the classroom door
- Student patterns: When are the quizzes due?
- Tell us your CSEd Week Stories
- Somewhere, C.P. Snow is smiling
- Predictions on Future CS1 Languages
- Revisited: My Students Know Far Less
- How new COMPETES law may help education and hurt research
- Is the (Biological) local that different from the (Computational) national?
- My Students Know Far Less Than I Ever Expected
- Tell the US Federal Government how to fix K-12 CS Ed
- Call for Participation in Georgia’s C^3
- Especially In Computing: ‘Trust Us’ Won’t Cut It Anymore – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Can standardization and innovation coexist in education?
- A Humiliation, er, Teachable Moment
- Using the iPad for something new
- Beth Simon on why everyone should take computing
- A Joint Call for Research on Why Computer Science Education is Important for K-12
- Keeping Women in Science and in Computing
- Visual 6502 in JavaScript
- MIT OpenCourseware is still Wikipedia
- What’s a century, really? The size of the achievement gap
- Education is Entertainment, Design, and Orchestration
- The Collapse of Computing Education in English Schools
- Oversold and Underused, the iPad edition
- Enormous variance from one CS class to the next
- The Viewpoints Research Institute’s STEPS Project
- 2010 in review from WordPress
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December 2010
- Dancing and singing humans, even more than robots
- What’s College good for, anyway?
- Teaching Computer Science through Inquiry
- Where Good Technologies Come From: Case Studies in American Innovation
- Workshop on Computer Architecture Education
- Programs as Poetry, and Programming as Art
- Georgia Tech to Found Center for 21st Century Universities
- Using Scratch to control household devices
- Surveys of industry and past alumni won’t inform new degrees
- Testimonial about the Berkeley AP CS Pilot
- Technology to Inhibit Technology
- Wrapup of CSEdWeek
- AP “Computer Science: Principles” Letter Writing Campaign
- The Value of Higher Education Made Literal – NYTimes.com
- From Community MusicWorks to Community ComputerWorks
- New results for AP CS in Georgia, with puzzles
- Best hope for CS Teacher Education is in-service, not pre-service
- Oral History of CS Videos
- One More Trip: CECC and ACM Ed Board
- CMU’s CS Education Day
- Computational Science needs CS Education
- NCWIT resources for CSed Week
- More education doesn’t lead to better teachers?
- U.S. tech lead at risk, says Obama’s top scientist
- Celebrating Admiral Hopper and CSed Week
- High School class programs robots–differently
- Notation And Thinking at Dick Lipton’s Blog
- BPC-A PI Meeting, then Virginia Tech
November 2010
- CSEDWeek.org is up!
- An essay is enough to narrow gender-based achievement gap
- There is no “First” in CS1
- Constructivism is to memorization, as RSS is to TIFF
- CSTA resources for CSed Week
- Computing Education Research vs Real Education Research
- In Toronto, Talking About CS Ed and CS4All
- Computer Science as a Path to Computer Application Efficacy
- Computers In Schools Are A Failure, “Tools of Distraction”
- Barbara Ericson on the Rise in AP CS
- Panel Calls for Turning Teacher Education ‘Upside Down,’ Centering Curricula around Classroom-Ready Training
- Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell on the future of software (Q&A)
- Out-Processing Processing with Field
- Take the CSed Week Pledge
- The Shadow Scholar: Essay from a Cheat Author
- Back in front of first years again: Encouraging undergrads to consider CS
- Teaching Teaching & Understanding Understanding
- Do contests draw students into majors?
- Finding hope in a book-less world
- Beyond Contextualized Computing Education: Problem Finding
- Decoding the Value of Computer Science – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Can we create K-12 engineering standards?
- GameBoy Emulation in JavaScript
- Google: Exploring Computational Thinking
- Slow change in CS1 Culture: China and Gates
- First things aren’t always first
- Making Software: TDD doesn’t work; Architecting is mixed; scripting is great
October 2010
- It starts: Dept of Ed regulations for Colleges
- Linking funding to colleges’ graduation rates
- Call for Participation: Computing Commons Collaboration Conference
- Those SIGCSE Reviewers say the darnedest things!
- Commodification of Academic Research
- Middle ground: Telepresence Teachers
- The role of unions in technological change
- So what is “computer education”?
- Britain *only* funding STEM?
- Education Research is not equal to Teaching: A note to email correspondents
- Human brains “mirroring” computer actions
- Matthias and Gordon win SIGCSE 2011 Honors
- Latest enrollment numbers at Qatar University: Big gender imbalance
- Despite attention and dollars, existing social media won’t fix online learning
- UCLA says charter schools are more segregated than public schools
- Kids aged 3-6 pretty much the same for last 85 years
- DARPA wants your kids — to major in CS
- Common Misconceptions About Software Engineering | News | Communications of the ACM
- Computer Science needs Education Schools. Desperately.
- Mailing list for Alice Educators
- Computing in the Core is Launched
- UCLA receives $12.5 million grant to increase computer science instruction in urban schools
- Running on Empty Report Released
- Are they Students or are they Learners?
- When is teaching more a public service than a profession?
- GT’s CM and Threads are ABET Accredited
- Culture trumps pedagogy: Thoughts after CSTA K-12 Workshop
- (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))
- Programming or Be Programmed: A New Medium Requires A New Literacy
- New NSF Program: Cyberlearning: Transforming Education
- More students dropping out from on-line classes
- Open Textbooks Aren’t Happening Yet
September 2010
- At GHC: Saying High-Tech Is a Meritocracy Doesn’t Make it So
- More college degrees needed in the South
- A new kind of program visualization tool: Making the student trace
- Who’s Teaching the Teachers?
- New NRC Rankings: “A little bit unsatisfactory, but at least it’s honest”
- College Admissions should go beyond cognitive measures
- WGBH, ACM Celebrate Dot Diva Launch to Reshape Image of Computing for High School Girls
- How there can be and NOT be an educational crisis in the US
- New NSF Program: Computing Education for the 21st Century
- The overblown crisis in American education : The New Yorker
- Poor science education impairs U.S. economy: Students follow jobs
- Scientists in classrooms squash motivation
- Few users study in MIT Open Courseware
- Teaching amid the research obsession
- Battling over a 100+ year educational monopoly
- Changing the Equation in STEM Education | The White House
- Multi-lingual Pedagogical Programming Environment: Pyjama
- The challenge of Educational Data Systems
- Update on the AP CS Pilots
- Larry Cuban on the Superhero Superintendent
- New NSF Report on Preparing STEM Innovators
- PCAST on STEM (and CS) education
- A robot drummer as computing student inspiration
- Alan Kay on Moti’s “Objects Ever?” CACM Article
- Discovering Oneself Supporting the “Landed Gentry”
- Live US Education Data
- Why Are So Many Terrorists Engineers? – NYTimes
- Moti asks: Objects Never? Well, Hardly Ever!
- About the CompSci Woman Blog
- Enrollment Up 10% at FSU, attributed to on-line degree program
- Grand Challenges in the US National Educational Technology Plan
- Location of Community College influencing Women’s STEM success?
- Unemployment high in Tech Sector – NYTimes
- It doesn’t make economic sense for Universities to do Research
- New APCS trial at UCSD
- Do faculty cover their salary? TAMU plans to compute profit-loss per prof
- Good teachers are born not made?
- New book on role of technologies in assisting disabled students
- Mid-career job changers to education don’t often work out
- “Georgia Computes!” (read: Barb) impact on CS1 in Georgia
- Tips for Women on Surviving STEM Graduate Studies
- MOOC: Massive Open Online Course
August 2010
- Georgia Tech wants avatars to sit in classrooms?
- What are the fundamental education issues for next 10 years? Computing education issues?
- Chalmers University launches ComputingEd-ish Program
- Top 5 Things to Teach IT Students: The Rest We Teach to Everyone
- CS Education Gets Congressional Attention
- A journal on innovation in ICS teaching
- Tell Sally Your Stories: Monthly, For a Year
- Your Brain on Computers – Overuse of Digital Devices May Lead to Brain Fatigue – NYTimes.com
- Not just STEM — need more graduates, period
- Explaining to women that Engineering makes a difference
- All-Digital Publisher Fails
- Two successful defenses, and off to the UK!
- Mobile technology to improve student retention
- A New Classroom for a New Kind of Computing Student: Brian Defends
- The First Multi-Lingual, Valid Measure of CS1 Knowledge: Allison Tew Defends
- Secondary school IT education failing in UK
- A Challenge to Computing Education Research: Make Measurable Progress
- The Digital Divide can’t be bridged by a computer dump
- Too few women game developers
- Students don’t take CS because of H-1B program?
- Media Computation books available as eBooks
- Go to the Data: Two stories of (really) Computational Thinking
- Blogging the first day of ICER 2010
- CRA-E report now available
- Hard for GT Prof to Get into High School
- Why did the Wave crash in Academia?
- Off to Denmark and ICER!
- Adele Goldberg: Modeling not Programming
- Growth of Python in CS1
- Providing social infrastructure for Open Courseware
- Employers are only hiring narrowly
- Why go to college? Liberal Arts vs. Computing
- Computer Science Education Act introduced in Congress
- Respond to the NRC today!
- Are all textbooks created equal?
July 2010
- AAAS evaluates NSF BPC Alliances
- If you were hacking since age 8, it means you were privileged. | Geek Feminism Blog
- So-Called ‘Digital Natives’ Not Media Savvy – NYTimes.com
- What’s Wrong With the American University System – The Atlantic
- How much do we really need geeks?
- Education (even kindergarten) matters
- In Defense of Lecture
- More evidence for aptitude-treatment interactions
- What do scientists and engineers need to know about supercomputing?
- Cynical view: How do we get more college graduates?
- Psychologists are from Kansas City, and Education Researchers are from Rio de Janeiro
- A shortage of cybersecurity IT workers
- Impact of Robots on CS1 retention: Mixed but promising
- The Creativity Crisis – Newsweek
- New study repeats: Service-Oriented Women avoid STEM
- A Future Role for the US: Teach the Teachers, Worldwide
- Doing with Images Makes Symbols, and from Action to Abstraction
- APCS Students can do Media Comp (and Alice) and Succeed
- There is no shortage of STEM students or graduates
- Future of Tablet Textbooks
- “Rough Cut” version of “Making Software” now available
- UC must put emphasis on education, not brand
- CMU launches robot-based CS-STEM Program
- The Molecular Workbench™ Platform
- Google as champion of user-as-creator
- Georgia State succeeding with women and robots
- What are we? Chopped liver? CS left out of National Academy STEM standards
- What AI can do for you
- Media Computation Teachers’ Wiki
- New vs News: The Medium Is the Medium
- The Utilitarian CS Ed Imperative and HyperCard on the Web
- The iPad for Academics — and Computer Scientists?
- What’s the role of the body in learning computing?
- Are Storytellers The Best Programmers?
- One more from ICLS: The Role of Explanations
- Thoughts on ICLS 2010: From reading poetry, to CS as infinite science
- Engineering is Elementary®: Is Computing?
- Raymond Lister on research themes and approaches
- Multiple data sets say the CS/IT jobs outlook is bright
- Alan Kay on Beyond Spreadsheets
June 2010
- High School Computing Education needs more Barbaras
- Tools for Building Tutors, and Tutors for Computing Education
- Talks and Trips: Learning Computing Concepts vs. Skills?
- Using technology to improve college completion rates
- Dave Patterson on fixing high school CS education
- Creating (and improving) options for CS practice: Practice-It! and beyond
- More teacher education vs. centralized control
- Paying teachers for merit only works if you can measure merit
- How much does undergraduate education really cost?
- It’s not just CS: All of science is hurting for majors
- Proving and Improving Teaching Programming Languages
- Technology plus policy for scale
- Why Can’t Johnny Develop Secure Software?
- NRC Non-Statement on What is Computational Thinking
- Adjuncts and Retention Rates
- Skip college to study computing?
- How important is a “useful” language for non-majors?
- Student-to-Student AP Computer Science Advice
- Studying Engineering before they can spell it
- Explaining why we reinvent software
- Fred Brooks says that we should pay teachers more
- Core National Standards released: Got Computing?
- Back and Board
- Evaluation as a Voice for the Kids in the Back of the Room
- Computing at odds with getting Faster
- How to help professional teachers share their practice
May 2010
- Computer science as Yugoslavia
- CS is shallow and lacking paradox
- Teacher’s Materials, Family, and Hawaii
- In Praise of Drill and Practice
- Fear and anxiety over curricular change
- The Core of Computer Science: Alan Kay’s “Triple Whammy”
- Happy 70th Birthday, Alan Kay!
- Media Computation and BPC-Related Workshops this Summer
- Albion College eliminates Computer Science
- Harvey Mudd’s Breadth Intro Course presented at NCWIT
- Being in charge of education at a research university
- Time to figure out high-quality online education
- HyperCard-like revMobile won’t be on iPad
- Teach for America as a finger in the dyke
- Texting is a distraction, and hours matter.
- The role of single-sex schools for black and Latino men
- Relevance Matters: Science needs a woman’s touch
- High school CS teachers under fire
- Operation Reboot in US News and World Report
- Preparing for Today and for the Future in Qatar
- Playing the Cards You’re Dealt: A Story of GT and HtDP
- Seeking National Lab Day Volunteers
- The Right to Hack, not to Flash
- Science for Non-Scientists: The “Two Cultures” debate continues
- Women in CS in Qatar: It’s Complicated
- Is Media Computation “bait and switch”?
- A conference on emerging languages
April 2010
- US lags in science education because it excels in science research
- BYOB now available
- Is higher education a racket like Wall Street?
- Education as a (Software) Engineering Endeavor
- ACM Ed Board Meeting in Doha, Qatar, 1-4 May 2010
- How to make progress in computing education: Get more funding!
- National Academies Report on Computational Thinking Released
- Don’t mess with the appliances: Is the iPhone bad for CS education?
- Is the laptop enabling or inhibiting learning?
- Alan Kay on Hoping That “Simple” is not “Too Simple”
- Lister and Spohrer, Plans and Schema and MCQ’s
- Compose Your Own — Music and Software
- Programs Train Teachers Using Medical School Model
- The Millenials are like the adults, only more so
- Women graduate in STEM more than boys: It’s video games?
- Pushback on the NYTimes piece: “Stop talking, start coding”
- Getting it right: Collaboration vs. cheating
- Challenges facing women IT entrepreneurs
- Why great teachers matter to low-income students
- From STEM to STEAM
- Apple removes Scratch from iPad/iPhone/iTouch
- CMU releases a new kids language for robots — in C!
- Is learning to program inherently hard?
- CHI Preview: Brian Dorn and Graphics Designers as Programmers
- Using Incentives to Improve Education: TIME is paying kids to do better in school
- Tennessee making their student data accessible
- Georgia Regents to college presidents: Improve graduation rates | jacksonville.com
- Florida removing tenure for new K-12 teachers
- You must be REALLY desperate!
- Minority Men in Community College
- Rationalizing Academic Blogging
- Rewarding according to our traditional values
- Most CS Professors Don’t Program
- Teacher “training” vs. Teacher “professional development”
- How to teach teachers
- How computing and physics learning differ
- Isn’t this what computers are for?
March 2010
- Recursion by Pirolli (1991)
- Congratulations to Matthias!
- Carl Wieman nominated for White House post
- Responding to the Respondents: Why So Few? Women in STEM and IT
- Mellon Foundation Closes Program Funding Sakai: It’s not about PowerPoint
- Need help! Get CS in the Common Core!
- The limits of what people generally know
- Math Scores are Rising, while Reading is Stagnant
- New CRA Taulbee Report Released: CS Majors up!
- Microsoft is all about cloud computing and parallelism
- Sally Fincher and women in computing education research for Ada Lovelace Day
- A Post Goes Viral
- Requiring isn’t the same as Improving
- Can computing curricula be neutral?
- US Dept of Ed says CS is part of STEM
- In India, Most CS Grads are Women
- White Boys are Boring: Demographic Impacts on Who We Teach
- CS counts as Math in new Core Standards
- New bill in Congress supporting K-12 engineering education
- Teaching computer games as the next Latin
- NSF Seeks New Approach to Helping Minority Students in Science
- The challenge of engaging African-American men in computing
- Improving Girls’ Math Scores with Emotion-Sensitive Tutor
- Adoption and Crisis
- Discussion of the new AP CS Principles
- Race Matters, but not Gender
- Carl Wieman plenary at SIGCSE 2010: The brain’s a muscle?
- Website for the new AP “Computer Science: Principles”
- Sally Fincher on Useless Truths at SIGCSE 2010
- iMPaCT: a Media-Propelled introduction to Computational Thinking
- SIGCSE 2010: Media Computation Preconference Workshop
- Charles P. Thacker Named Recipient of 2009 ACM A.M. Turing Award
- Creation of the School of Computational Science and Engineering
- Exciting new paper on MediaComp with Majors and Year-Later Results
- Swiki on the iPhone!
- The market can’t fix schools
- Scratch for iPhone!
- The standard for online courses is firmly in place?
- CCLI is now TUES
- The Future of Computing is People, People, and People
- British experts blame lack of IT professionals on schools
- SIGCSE Preview: Variations, Influence, and the Future
- SIGCSE Preview: Allison Tew and Assessing CS Knowledge
- SIGCSE Preview: Lijun Ni and Factors Influencing Teacher Change
- SIGCSE Preview: Mike Hewner and Game Industry Needs
February 2010
- Pilot testing the new AP CS definition
- Undergraduates as America’s only Leisure Class
- The economic benefits of reducing drop-outs
- Fighting Engineers: Robots, Anecdotes, and Data
- A Computing Education Debate in CACM
- Technology is not masculine
- Are there jobs or aren’t there?
- Glitch and Gaming Masculinity: Video games as a reflection on culture
- Now’s the time to hire Computing Education faculty!
- Program your Apple II! Why not program today?
- Stanford revamps CS curriculum in a Thread-like manner
- Measuring Classroom Progress in the 21st Century
- Graduation Gaps for Science Majors: Whose fault is it?
- Did PCs influence decline in female participation in computing?
- Blacks, Latinos and women lose ground in Silicon Valley
- Equity and Opportunity Threatened by Growing National “Excellence Gap”
- Cleaving Computer Science: A Time for New Degrees
- AP: More takers and more fails
- Measuring the longterm impact of a teacher
- Teachers cheating on student tests
- The Role of Indian Films in Promoting Computing Careers
- When did “Professor” become a bad thing?
- A University President Advocates Tweaking Tenure: Getting the behavior we reward
- Stanford finds cheating increasing, especially among CS students
- Beginning to Rethink CS Education at NSF
- Failure rate for AP tests climbing
- Minority Male Plight Demands Broad U.S. Action, College Board Says
- Role for Universities: Supporting training in down economic times
- What CS teachers know: PCK for CS Ed
- Letter from Harriet Taylor on NSF CPATH
- Cyberellas?
- NSF BPC and CPATH end
- What if “CS1” is just a really bad idea?
- Context matters, not just my context
- The Productivity of CS Teachers
January 2010
- An Educational Extinction Event?
- School district adds CS as high school requirement
- “Who do I have to fight now?”: CS != Apps++
- How do we get more, without sacrificing good, while measuring it?
- A new medium to engage students: Electronic pop-up books
- Kindles vs. Smartphones: Age matters, Testing matters
- An NSF for Educational Technology
- Picture-driven computing
- The slice is not the whole: Folk Pedagogues and Open Source
- What’s worth it in reform?
- Open Source Development: Not Very Open or Welcoming
- A National UK Animation Contest
- Professors are liberal because they’re typecast that way
- University of Georgia gets Engineering
- Engineers think with stuff
- The disconnect between the Geek shortage and the Geek layoffs
- New national standards for technology literacy going into public hearings
- It’s about me vs. it’s about others
- Are computer scientists a form of evil intellectuals?
- The Future of SIGCSE
- Finding the two-humps and practice in APCS
- Flagship Universities Straying from their Mission
- Computing jobs are booming! Who will fill them?
- Latest update on Georgia Computes!
- The technical exists in the social context
- Study Gauges Teach for America Graduates’ Civic Involvement – NYTimes.com
- All educational ideas are out there?
- MIT and FIRST Ally To Encourage STEM Education Careers — Campus Technology
- Finally! Media Computation book series done!
- Boredom vs. Failure Part 2: The New Demographic
- Rethinking Science Education as Contextualized
- From Boards to Bridges: The Case for Software Engineering
- CMU’s Hybrid Education 2.0: Better than a classroom
- Bjarne Stroustrup on what new software developers should learn and what CS is
- Introducing distributed over centralized version control system
- ACM tops list of “meanies” for lack of accessibility
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December 2009
- Selling electricity
- What’s practice for CS1 before CS1? Explaining talent for computing
- NYTimes: It’s about blending computing + X
- Going Beyond Good: Computing4Good Considered Harmful
- Fewer high school students taking computer science classes – washingtonpost.com
- How deep are video games?
- Going on Furlough and Holiday Traveling
- Can Robotics Help Kids Learn Science?
- Report on the MediaComp horse race
- NCWIT seeking support for pushing CS Ed in DC
- A bit of learning can go a long way
- Options for a totally blind CS1 student
- Berkeley’s CS Course on Beauty and Joy
- CS1 for Google Cell Phones
- Accessibility concerns for computing education
- The Quality of For-Profit Colleges
- Growing Teachers is Hard
- How I think about the new AP CS effort
- Maria Klawe: Computing Our Children’s Future
- Learning Computer Science From Scratch – US National Science Foundation (NSF)
- The Closing of the U.S. Open University
- Child Development Expert Offers Ideas for Promoting Early Science Learning
- Beat the book, not the teacher
- Developing general knowledge from contextualized CS1
- Future of Computer Science Education
- Blogger Judy Robertson Wins IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award
- Slideshow on the new AP “Computer Science: Principles” Course
- CMU’s CS Ed Day 2009
- CSedweek’s Channel on YouTube
- CSEdWeek.org website is now up and running
- Most students don’t finish community college
- Georgia Tech’s Press Pitch on National CS Ed Week
- How do you create interactive computing lectures?
- Open University’s new Introduction to Computing
- Settings support or refute stereotypes
- Seeking an algorithm for comparing parse trees
- Business and University partnerships to increase IT workers
- A new generation of hackers
- Jared Polis speaks on behalf of CS Education
November 2009
- Microsoft’s top developers prefer old-school coding methods
- Are some people suited for CS1, and others not?
- Being Thankful for Luck
- The role of debate in learning
- Are You a Blue Collar or White Collar Developer? — Datamation.com
- iList: An intelligent tutor for linked lists
- What would a CS School of One look like?
- How would you know if you’re broadening participation?
- Are we a bunch of (particularly) grumpy old men?
- Latest: GaDoEd says Science Yes, Math No
- More farmers for the fields: More computing ed experiments!
- Can direct manipulation lower the barriers to computer programming and promote transfer of training?
- Teaching better by teaching less
- Funding Projects not People
- New NSF grant to Snodgrass and Denning to Advance Computing as a Science
- What makes programmers happy? Students? Standards vs. Flexibility
- The Origins of APL – 1974 Video
- The need for hybrids: A call for more DBR
- BLOG@CACM on second day of Informatics Education Europe
- BLOG@CACM on first day of IEE IV
- Talk on Meeting Everyone’s Needs for Computing
- Georgia Board of Regents accepts APCS as “counting”
- Filling the Doughnut-Hole with Computing Education
- Frank Zappa says Programming is Art
- ComputerWorld picks up Operation Reboot
October 2009
- Guitar Hero as a Form of Scaffolding
- Teach a Kid to Program – Wired How-To Wiki
- Do we need to improve tenure?
- How to Fix Our Education System
- Scratch and more CS Ed in this month’s CACM
- Great Recession caused by sub-standard public education?
- Hooray for CS Education Week
- Judy Robertson says to Take Heart
- Systems Software Research is Dead
- Update on counting CS for high school graduation requirements in Georgia
- How do we make high school CS classes more “real”?
- “Constant Vigilance!”: Working for Computing Education in Georgia
- Is CS or Computing a discipline?
- What’s worse: Boredom or failure?
- Computer Science is not Engineering (and it is, too)
- Who educates the average students?
- Teaching for Information Rights Defense and Offense
- What are the priorities of computer science?
- There will always be friction
- Computing Surge in Georgia from Inside Higher Ed
- Learning computing on computer, not in IDE
- Question Everything: How We Teach Intro CS is Wrong
- Playing Wack-a-Mole with State CS Ed Policy
- Uh-Oh! Enforced Open Textbooks
September 2009
- Operation Reboot: Georgia Tech Looks To Shift Unemployed IT Pros into Teaching Careers — THE Journal
- What if computer science was required?
- HyperCard for the Web
- The Phonics of Computing Education
- Accounting for the Two Humps
- Turning Skills into Money
- Critical thinking? You need knowledge – The Boston Globe
- Searching for a new driver for CS Education
- What changes CS Education?
- Engineering as a Context for Education
- US Computing Education Research On The Sly
- Next great CS1 Context: Statistics
- Can Video Game Testing Spark Interest in Computing Among Black Youth?
- Matthias Felleisen in Response to Blog Post
- NYTimes: U.S. Colleges Are Failing in Getting Students to Graduate
- Moving the Needle
- Wright and Wilson: But where do we learn literacy?
- Computing College Educators on Widening the Education Gap (part 2)
- Business panel to freshmen: “Study IT to avoid unemployment”
- College Computing Educators are Widening the Gap Between Rich and Poor
August 2009
- Blog post on U. Toronto’s switch to Python (and Media Computation)
- La plus ca change: It’s the goals not the data
- Nice CACM piece on K-12 Education Policy
- Language Choice = f(Number of Copies)
- The Learning Process for Education Research
- New social networking site for CS teachers
- “Exploring Wonderland” is out: Encouraging transfer between Alice and Java
- How will you know that American universities have collapsed?
- New Scottish Computer Science Curriculum
- The Whole Package Matters
- Lisp and Smalltalk are dead: It’s C all the way down.
- Fashion counts: Cell phones vs. Calculators
- Chemistry is to Biology as X is to Computing
- New report on on-line learning from US Dept of Ed
- Questioning the report that High School CS is declining
- Defining Media Computation: Shifting levels of abstraction for fun
- The lessons of invention for learning
- Cramming the first semester until the students burst
- Turning Students Off with “Unlearning”
- Google pushing programming cell phones in courses
- “You don’t have to program, you get to.”
- New LAUSD high school CS course curriculum
July 2009
- CS Majors are least likely to finish degree among Science majors
- All significant education questions are economic
- Media Computation is not “done”
- The meaning of computer science: What our students are thinking about
- Media Computation update
- Trust me! I’m a Computer Science Teacher!
- The Economics of Computing Education
- Correction and Update on APCS enrollment
- Feynman lectures from Microsoft: A medium for active essays and computing ed
- Are we measuring what students are learning?
- Talk at Microsoft Research on IPRE
- Amazon Blog being deleted
- Education is to Social Work, as Civil Engineering is to Chemical Engineering
- Point/Counterpoint: CS Education headed in wrong direction?
- I am a nearly-50 year old curmudgeon: Kids today are like kids yesterday
- Aligning Computer Science with Mathematics by Felleisen and Krishnamurthi
- How high school students start thinking about code
- Looking for Excuses to Do Something Good
- An undergraduate degree in Computer Science Education
June 2009
- DNA: A new CS1 language, for teaching systems
- Future of Computing Education Summit: A New Computing Education Organization!
- Canadian students *do* see computing as cool, just not worthwhile
- Computing For Evil! Isn’t Education a “Good”?
- Nudging Computing Education
- Women Programming, Just Not In CS
- The Responsibility of APCS for the Decline of Enrollment in Undergraduate Computer Science
- Stories Teachers Tell Themselves
- The Public Perception of the University
- Moving in from Amazon