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Today's POTD continues our theme of Computer Science Education Week. Yesterday we saw a paper (and retraction), and meditated on the topic of why it's so hard to teach programming.
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A new curriculum will use project-based learning and culturally relevant teaching strategies to engage high school physics and chemistry students in ...
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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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