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Emma Dodoo is an Engineering Education Research PhD student working with me. She was born in the United States but grew up in Ghana. Her world growing up was multi-lingual and multi-cultural. When Emma took her first computer science classes, she was surprised to find that the curriculum was not only dominated by English but...
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[AI summary] Selena Deckelmann discusses a talk at PyCon regarding the barriers, misconceptions, and challenges facing high school computer science teachers, emphasizing the need to improve engagement and diversity in CS education.
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Last week Aisha Blake hosted me for a conversation about computer science education, from designing an activity to a session to a course. Luckily, we got this recording, so you can watch it anytime! Here's that link to the recording again. Additional notes on what we covered: First, here is the "Designing a Course" blog...
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I participated at the first SIGCSE Virtual Conference last December. I was on a panel "Assessments for Non-CS Major Computing Classes" (see the ACM DL paper here). The panelists were excellent. I was excited to meet Permit Chilana who came up with the idea of conversational programmer in her 2015 VL/HCC paper. Her talk was...
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