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It’s not about the teachers, it’s about the students: In MOOCs or Classroom
I agree with the post below which suggests that MOOCs misunderstand what a good teacher does–that’s what my post earlier was about. I’m not convinced that I agree with the author’s definition of what...
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Hard to tell if Universities teach: The challenge of low-stakes testing
What a great idea! Everybody who goes to University takes a test like the ACT or SAT. Simply give it to them again as they’re graduating! Now you have a measure of impact — the change between the...
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Teaching Tree: A Source for CS Videos
Here’s a repository for videos that teach computer science. Unlike Khan, it’s open to anyone to contribute. Unlike YouTube, it’s only about teaching CS. TeachingTree is an open platform that lets...
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Carl Wieman Finds Colleges Resist Measuring Teaching
I’ve just started my subscription to The Chronicle of Higher Education, and the first print issue I received had a great article about Carl Wieman, whom I have written about previously (here and here...
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Virtual Faculty Communities of Practice to improve instructional practices
Posted to the SIGCSE-Members list — I really like this idea! Our work on DCCE showed that communities of teachers was an effective way of improving teacher’s sense of belonging and desire to improve....
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Using Greek ideals to improve progress in education
Nick Falkner has been using his blog in a series of posts to address a question that I’ve wondered about here: Why does research influence so little practice (see post here) and policy (see post here)?...
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A MediaComp MOOC in Processing
I was excited to read this in Katrina Falkner’s blog at the beginning of the year. They’re teaching a Media Computation MOOC in Processing! I highly recommend looking at the actual blog post and the...
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What should a post-full Computing Education Researcher do next?
My school chair, Annie Anton (most recently famous for being on a Presidential Commission on Cybersecurity), asked me to think about what I’d like to do, what I’d like to make, and what I’d like to be...
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Implementing Design Studio Pedagogy with an Augmented Reality CS Classroom
Architecture and art is often taught in a design studio setting, where students work in a large, open space where everyone can see what everyone else is doing all the time — for collaboration, for...
View ArticleHow I’m lecturing during emergency remote teaching
Alfred Thompson (whom most of my readers already know) has a recent blog post requesting: Please blog about your emergency remote teaching (see post here). Alfred is right. We ought to be talking...
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