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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,

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).

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