Emma Dodoo is a PhD student working with me. Emma works with K-12 computing teachers who have emerging bilingual (EB) students in their classes, e.g., students for whom Spanish is their first langu…| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
When we looked at how PCAS students thought about our classes (for our SIGCSE 2025 experience report), I was surprised at students’ use of the word “overwhelming” when talking about CS classes. I was pleased that they positively contrasted our courses with CS classes that they had taken previously, but I didn’t realize how much […]| Computing Ed Research – Guzdial's Take
The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) is in the process of updating their influential standards. It’s a long process, and it started last summer with a visioning document called “Reimagi…| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
Gabi Marcu is a professor in the University of Michigan School of Information who studies technologies to promote health (see her website). She’s also an improv performer, and a friend. She asked me to participate in her project to combine research and improv called “Extra Credit.” She asks researchers to explain their research in 10 […]| Computing Ed Research – Guzdial's Take
I participated at the first SIGCSE Virtual Conference last December. I was on a panel “Assessments for Non-CS Major Computing Classes” (see the ACM DL paper here). The panelists were excellent. I w…| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
I’m hesitant to state a preference for my favorite paper at the International Computing Education Research (ICER) Conference in 2024. There were so many cool papers (including some by my students!)…| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
I am sorry to miss the SIGCSE 2025 Technical Symposium this week. I so want to hear Mitchel Resnick’s keynote for his Outstanding Contribution award, and to cheer on Manuel Pérez-Quiñones for his Distinguished Service award. There’s going to be a great session on “Ethics, Power, and Persistence” with papers from ACM TOCE, including a […]| Computing Ed Research – Guzdial's Take
Emma Dodoo is an Engineering Education Research PhD student working with me. She was born in the United States but grew up in Ghana. Her world growing up was multi-lingual and multi-cultural. When …| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
Here’s why I decided to work on yet-another implementation of a Python API that we first developed in 2001, how to get the implementation, and how it’s different. Why we needed Python MediaComp in the browser In 2002, we created a course at Georgia Tech called “Introduction to Media Computation.” Georgia Tech required all liberal […]| Computing Ed Research – Guzdial's Take
I’m on sabbatical this semester, so I finally have time to catch up on some long overdue blog posts. Bahare at her defense with her committee: From left, Barbara Ericson, Shanna Daly, James Holly J…| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
I don’t get to teach Media Computation1 since I moved to the University of Michigan, so I haven’t done as much development on the curriculum and infrastructure as I might like if I were teaching it…| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
This blog is pretty old. I started it in June 2009 — almost 13 years ago. The pace of posting has varied from every day (today, I can’t understand how I ever did that!) to once every couple o…| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
Last month, Katie Cunningham presented her CHI 2021 paper “Avoiding the Turing Tarpit: Learning Conversational Programming by Starting from Code’s Purpose.” The video of her presentation is availab…| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
I (finally) finished grading midterms and first round of grad student essays from my joint undergrad/grad “Educational Technology” class last night. The first phase of the class was an …| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
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“It’s the end of Computer Programming as We Know It” wrote Farad Manjoo in the NYTimes last June. Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, said earlier this year that programming is no longer important: “It is…| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
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Assessment is a hot topic in computing education research right now. I’m sharing below a workshop announcement from Nell O’Rourke and Melissa Chen. They want to help students make accurate self-ass…| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
One of the persistent research questions in computing education research (CER) is, “If you learn something in programming, can you use that something somewhere else?” Learning scientists call this …| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
After we got the go-ahead to start developing PCAS (see an update on PCAS here), I had meetings with a wide range of liberal arts and sciences faculty. I’d ask faculty how they used computing in th…| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
I am presenting two “Tips and Techniques” papers at the ITiCSE 2023 conference in Turku, Finland on Tuesday July 11th. The papers are presenting the same scaffolded sequence of programming language…| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
My main activity for the last year has been building two new courses for our new Program in Computing for the Arts and Sciences (PCAS), which I’ve blogged about recently here (with video of a talk …| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
In May, my students and I published a paper in Communications of the ACM, “Putting a Teaspoon of Programming into Other Subjects” (see link here) about our work with teaspoon languages.…| Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
