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2026
GenAI as automobile for the mind, and exercise as the antidote: A metaphor for predicting GenAI’s impactoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2026
3 Feb 2026
A New Zealand Perspective on the Challenges of Computing Education: What I did on my sabbaticaloriginal ↗
26 Jan 2026
2025
Dr. Tamara Nelson-Fromm defends her dissertation: What Debugging Looks like in Alternative Endpointsoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2025
27 May 2025
School teachers don’t need to recruit students into CS: An alternative model for K-12 computing educationoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2025
How scientists learn computing and use LLMs to program: Computing education for scientists and for democracyoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2025
Designing Courses for Liberal Arts and Sciences Students Contextualized Around Creative Expression and Social Justice: SIGCSE 2025 Experience Reportoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2025
17 Feb 2025
2024
Kids Think Girls Are Worse Than Boys at Computer Science, by Age 6 – blog post from Amber Settleoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2024
Do I Have a Say in This, or Has ChatGPT Already Decided for Me?: Guest Blog Post from Aadarsh Padiyathoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2024
For the reasons liberal arts and sciences majors should learn to program, AI’s not really that big a dealoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2024
17 Jul 2024
15 Jul 2024
2023
What Humanities Scholars Want Students To Know About the Internet: Alternative Paths for Alternative Endpointsoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2023
A Scaffolded Approach into Programming for Arts and Humanities Majors: ITiCSE 2023 Tips and Techniques Papersoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2023
Putting a Teaspoon of Programming into Other Subjects (May 2023 Communications of the ACM): About Teaspoon Languagesoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2023
How computing instructors plan to adapt to ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and other AI coding assistants (ICER 2023 paper): Guest blog post from Philip Guooriginal ↗
20 Jun 2023
Broadening Participation in Computing by Moving Away from Computer Science: Information, Arts, Humanities, and Sciences offer better models for #CSforAlloriginal ↗
15 Jun 2023
Participatory Design to Support University to High School Curricular Transition/Translation in FIE 2022original ↗
5 Jun 2023
The information won’t just sink in: Helping teachers provide technology-assisted data literacy instruction in social studiesoriginal ↗
30 May 2023
2022
Programming in blocks lets far more people code — but not like software engineers: Response to the Ofsted Reportoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2022
Getting feedback on Teaspoon Languages from CS educators and researchers at the Raspberry Pi Foundation seminar seriesoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2022
Ruthe Farmer’s important big idea: The Last Mile Education Fund to increase diversity in STEMoriginal ↗
26 May 2022
Three types of computing education research: for CS, for CS but not professionally, and for everyoneoriginal ↗
25 May 2022
Updates: Workshop on Contextualized Approaches to Introduction to Computing, from the Center for Inclusive Computing at Northeastern Universityoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2022
Updates: Dr. Barbara Ericson awarded ACM SIGCSE 2022 Outstanding Contributions to Educationoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2022
23 Feb 2022
Updates: Developing the University of Michigan LSA Program in Computing for the Arts and Scienceoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2022
2021
Computer Science was always supposed to be taught to everyone, and it wasn’t about getting a job: A historical perspectiveoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2021
ICER 2021 Preview: The Challenges of Validated Assessments, Developing Rich Conceptualizations, and Understanding Interest #icer2021original ↗
16 Aug 2021
The Drawbacks of the One-Second Conference Trip. Or, how to prepare for ICER 2021. Guest Blog Post from Matthias Hauswirthoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2021
Why aren’t more girls in the UK choosing to study computing and technology? Guest blog post by Peter Kemporiginal ↗
2 Aug 2021
Announcing the inaugural Illinois Computer Science Summer Teaching Workshop: Guest blog post from Geoffrey Challenoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2021
Considering the Danish Informatics Curriculum: Comparing National Computer Science Curriculaoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2021
There is transfer between programming and other subjects: Skills overlap, but it may not be causaloriginal ↗
5 Jul 2021
Rules work as a way of communicating computation at a mechanistic level without teaching programmingoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2021
Katie Cunningham’s Purpose-first Programming: Glass box scaffolding for learning to code for authentic contextsoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2021
14 Jun 2021
24 May 2021
Seeking Collaborators for a Study of Impostor Phenomenon in Computer Science: Guest Blog Post from Leo Porteroriginal ↗
6 May 2021
From Guided Exploration to Possible Adoption: Patterns of Pre-Service Social Studies Teacher Engagement with Programming and Non-Programming Based Learning Technology Toolsoriginal ↗
19 Apr 2021
Embodiment in CS Learning: How Space, Metaphor, Gesture, and Sketching Support Student Learning: Amber Solomon’s defenseoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2021
8 Feb 2021
21 Jan 2021
2020
The goal of the first CS course should be to promote confidence if we’re going to increase diversity in CS: Paying off on a betoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2020
7 Dec 2020
Purpose-first programming: A programming learning approach for learners who care most about what code achieves: Katie Cunningham’s Defenseoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2020
Social Studies Teachers using Programming for Data Visualization: An FIE 2020 Paper Previeworiginal ↗
19 Oct 2020
Award-winning papers at ICER 2020 explore new directions and point towards the next work to dooriginal ↗
28 Sept 2020
Let’s program in social studies classes: NSF funding for our work in task-specific programming languagesoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2020
Proposal #3 to Change CS Education to Reduce Inequity: Call a truce on academic misconduct cases for programming assignmentsoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2020
Proposal #2 to Change CS Education to Reduce Inequity: Make the highest grades achievable by all studentsoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2020
Proposal #1 to Change CS Education to Reduce Inequity: Teach computer science to advantage the students with less computing backgroundoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2020
Changing Computer Science Education to eliminate structural inequities and in response to a pandemic: Starting a Four Part Seriesoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2020
Paradigm shifts in education and educational technology: Influencing the students here and noworiginal ↗
6 Jul 2020
22 Jun 2020
How do teachers teach recursion with embodiment, and why won’t students trace their programs: ICLS 2020 Previeworiginal ↗
15 Jun 2020
Goals for CS Education include Getting Students In the Door and Supporting Alternative Endpointsoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2020
Thought Experiments on Why Face-to-Face Teaching Beats On-Line Teaching: We are Humans, not Econsoriginal ↗
11 May 2020
SIGCSE 2020: Papers freely available, AP CSA over AP CSP for diversifying computing, and a tour of computing ed research in one houroriginal ↗
4 May 2020
27 Apr 2020