How WWII Was Won, and Why CS Students Feel Unappreciated
John Arquilla considers how code-breaking helped end a war, while Jeremy Roschelle ponders the use of music in data science education.
Jeremy Roschelle
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Towards Equity in K-12 Computer Science Education: Consistency, Cumulativity and Competencies
To address structural barriers in Computer Science education, school districts are now looking beyond the need for specific courses or tools. They are developing K-12 pathways that are consistent, cumultative and competency-based.
Detecting/Preventing Infections, and Moving Instruction Online
Terrence DeFranco suggests the Internet of Things could be keeping us safer, and Jeremy Roschelle airs issues related to online instruction.
Learning Computational Thinking to Dominate the Music Industry
Music can be a context for middle school students to learn about computational thinking and data science. In a game environment, students can play the role in which they analyze data to boost their artist's career. In contrast to many school settings in which students encounter data, a music industry context can be authentic and accessible and can highlight the iterative, cyclical nature of thinking with data,
Computational Thinking or Computational Teamwork?
Computational thinking can sound like "CS-minus." Is there a "CS-plus" that makes CS more attractive and approachable by all?
Powerful Online Learning is a Distributed System
In the midst of a pandemic, universities are now rapidly shifting to online and remote learning. Here, I will suggest a core metaphor for what powerful online learning can look like. The Distributed Systems Metaphor for Online Learning suggests that an instructor should fully engage and connect the students (the processing nodes) to maximize their active effort to elaborate, coordinate and give each other constructive feedback, with a collective goal in mind (i.e., learning more deeply by harnessing cognitive diversity).
Log on Education: Science in the Palms of Their Hands
In the beginning, there are children and the learning experiences we want them to have. Now, let’s bring in technology as the means for enabling those learning experiences. If we’re serious about having children use technology in K12 classrooms, then we need to convince the gatekeepers of those classrooms as to the worth of the […]
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