Introductory Computer Science Lessons–Take Heart!
A discussion of Mark Guzdial's post about why our approach to teaching novice CS students is wrong.
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How We Teach Introductory Computer Science Is Wrong
Research in educational psychology in the last 20 years calls into question our most common teaching methods in introductory courses: Teaching programming by having students program
Collective Intelligence: a Fad or Real Research?
A recent trend in HCI research is the extension of the long time goal of augmenting human intelligence to "augmenting social intelligence." That is, enabling not just a single person to find and make sense of information, but enabling a group of people (whether explicitly or implicitly organized) to make sense of information.
Tessa reports on highlights from the recent Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
Final Thoughts About Grace Hopper Conference
Just a few final thoughts and pointers to projects and resources.
Student Research Competition at Grace Hopper
Highlights of the top six posters/presentations at the Student Research Competition
Smartphones and Health Systems Research at Intel Seattle
The ubiquity of smartphones and their increasing ability to collect and transmit information will lead the way for the next advances in health monitoring and improvement.
Grace Hopper Conference Opening Session: Part 1
Grace Hopper Conference--some highlights on who attends and what it's like.
Opening Day of Grace Hopper Conference
A panoply of posters welcome attendees to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
The Netflix Prize, Computer Science Outreach, and Japanese Mobile Phones
The Communications Web site, http://cacm.acm.org, features more than a dozen bloggers in the BLOG@CACM community. In each issue of Communications, we'll publish excerpts from selected posts. Greg Linden writes about machine learning and the Netflix Prize, Judy Robertson offers suggestions about getting teenagers interested in computer science, and Michael Conover discusses mobile phone usage and quick response codes in Japan.
Computer security warnings are something we all see everyday, but many people find them annoying and ignore them. What are better ways of designing warnings?
Decisions about whether there is computer science in the classroom are largely state-based. The most recent example is the State of Kansas, which is moving to remove computing courses from the content students are required to take. This could undercut computer science education. ACM and the Computer Science Teachers Association recommend a different approach asking that the State include computer science in students' core requirements.
Donation of Technological Goods and its Impact on a Society
What are the possible consequences of donation of
technological goods on the society
How many electronic devices do you own? It is tempting to answer, “Just a handful,” but the truth is much more nuanced. Here’s a simple experiment that will (quite literally) illuminate the truth. Some evening, after darkness has fallen, turn off all the lights in your house, walk from room to room and count the number of lighted power indicators, blinking LEDs and glowing screens. I suspect you will be surprised.
Science acts as a bridge between societies that trasncends culture, and it may be our best hope for finding a common thread in a globalized future.
Why Doesn’t the U.S. Fund Computing Education Research?
How do we bootstrap research in computing education? Existing education research programs only fund the best research, with the best measurement instruments and theories. What do you do when those don't exist yet?
A happy ending to the petition which asked for an apology to Turing from the British government.
Frequent Releases Change Software Engineering
If you started deploying software much more frequently, how would it change your software development?
A series of recent articles suggests that higher education in the United States is actually causing inequality, and that CS faculty play a role in that.
The Benefits of Public Engagement
Working with public engagment projects can be satisfying, and has benefits for the researcher as well as the general public. This article describes my current Making Games in Schools project.
Not that many years ago international travel meant one was largely inaccessible to colleagues at home. Today, when my plane lands, I will turn on my smart phone, connect to the local GSM network and download queued messages. Now if I could just catch up on my email deluge.
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