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Short Take: Big Data and IoT in Practice
Looking at some use cases for the adoption of big data in industries that deal with physical things, and drawing some inferences…
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There Are No Digital Humanities
Many think that the opposite of digital is analog or mechanical.
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FictionStein
Science fiction like Frankenstein nudges readers to confer humanity but nudges them away from moral fortitude.
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Direct Instruction is Better than Discovery, but What Should We be Directly Instructing?
We should teach students directly, not expect them to discover for themselves. What should we be teaching directly?
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A Tale of Two CTs (and a Revised Timeline for Computational Thinking)
Rethinking the timeline of Computational Thinking to recognize several computer scientists in addition to Jeannette Wing.
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What Children Want to Know About Computers
Does a super computer have a really big chip in it? Would we be more or less clever if computers had never been invented? These are the sorts of questions which...
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Changing Who Pays for CS Professional Development in the U.S. and Who Controls It: It Has to be Local
In the U.S., a shift in who pays to prepare computer science (CS) teachers.
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Tech User Responsibility
User support presents serious challenges that are aggravated by indeterminate client responsibility.
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Computational Thinking, Education for the Poor and Rich, and Dealing with Schools and Teachers As They Are: A Twitter Convo
A Twitter conversation turned into a narrative on computational thinking
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Computer Science Encyclopedia Can Fill a Gap
Our profession has the credibility and resources to create an Encyclopedia that will serve as the professional standard.
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Moving Computing Education Past Argument from Authority: Stuart Reges and Women Who Code
Computing educators often make decisions based on arguments from authority. Time to move on.
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Discussing Empirical Answers to Questions of Software Engineering
Focusing on what helps software developers.
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My First Interaction, Design, and Children Conference, IDC 2018
IDC 2018 was a fun conference with lots of great insights.
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Teaching Two Programming Languages in the First CS Course
Should we teach two different programming languages in the first CS course? Probably not -- here's what we know.
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Integrating CS to Improve Scores in Math, Science, and English Language Arts: New Result from Code.org and Outliers
Evidence from Broward County of integrated CS curriculum having an impact on standardized tests
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Examples of Phenomenology in Computing
The branch of philosophy known as phenomenology can broaden our understanding of what is really going on in the tasks we address with computing.
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Time To End The vi/Emacs Debate
If you still use Emacs, I feel for you. Perhaps it is time to give vi a try.
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A Computing Education Research Perspective on Programmable Programming Languages
Computing education researcher take on the implications of programmable programming languages
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Deciding When the Design is Wrong in Programming Languages and Education
When do we decide that errors are due to bad design in programming languges and education?
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