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Question Everything: How We Teach Intro CS is Wrong « Computing Education Blog
"Not problem-solving leads to better problem-solving skills than those doing problem-solving. That’s when Educational Psychologists began to question “learning by doing” and the idea that we should best teach problem-solving by having students solve problems."
Visual Understanding Environment
The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information.
What changes CS Education? « Computing Education Blog
In this blog, we’ve talked about Lijun Ni’s research results, that suggest that changes that teachers make in their classroom is most influenced by their personal excitement for the change. We’ve also talked about the fact that research results actually influence teachers very little. What I’ve been wondering about lately is, “What influences the teacher excitement?” I don’t have any answers, but I’ll lay out some ideas and let the commentators help us tease out importance.
Aligning Computer Science with Mathematics by Felleisen and Krishnamurthi « Computing Education Blog
College Computing Educators are Widening the Gap Between Rich and Poor « Computing Education Blog
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Close down the schools!
"Finally, it should be noted that, of the 51 experiments studied, only 11 actually showed a statistically significant advantage to online instruction."
MIT OpenCourseWare | Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation | PE.550 Designing Your Life, January (IAP) 2007 | Home
"This course provides an exciting, eye-opening, and thoroughly useful inquiry into what it takes to live an extraordinary life, on your own terms. The instructors address what it takes to succeed, to be proud of your life, and to be happy in it." Seems suspicious to me: you "picked your parents"; Ayn Rand in the bibliography.
Who wants school vouchers? - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Oddly, information visualization by Gelman that I didn't like (blame the color scheme). I have a bookmark in delicious about research saying vouchers don't work but I can't remember the right tags to retrieve it.
Bread and Circuits » Mozilla Education: what getting involved looks like
Getting students to collaborate with open source projects
CS198 - Teaching Computer Science
The program is aimed at giving qualified undergraduate students of all majors a unique opportunity to teach as a part of their undergraduate experience. Sections leaders cover materials such as the C++ and Java languages, functional decomposition, arrays, strings, pointers, records, objects, recursion, abstract data types, algorithmic analysis, data structure design, sets, graphs, and other fundamental elements of modern programming.
More Evidence That Girls Kick Ass at Math, Just Like Boys | 80beats | Discover Magazine
Even if girls and boys perform equally well in math on average, is it true that more math geniuses are male? That was the idea expressed by then-Harvard president Larry Summers in 2005 when he raised an uproar by talking about males’ “intrinsic aptitude” for math. The researchers looked for evidence of such an imbalance, but found that in countries with the greatest gender equality, as many girls as boys scored above the 99th percentile–and in a few countries, there were more girls in that elite rank than boys.
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Even if girls and boys perform equally well in math on average, is it true that more math geniuses are male? That was the idea expressed by then-Harvard president Larry Summers in 2005 when he raised an uproar by talking about males’ “intrinsic aptitude” for math. The researchers looked for evidence of such an imbalance, but found that in countries with the greatest gender equality, as many girls as boys scored above the 99th percentile–and in a few countries, there were more girls in that elite rank than boys. The “scarcity of top-scoring females in many, but not all countries .. . must be largely due to changeable sociocultural factors,” the scientists write, “not immutable, innate biological differences between the sexes.” If the differences were innate, they should show up in every culture
The Third Bit » Blog Archive » Recently Read
Smith: Conquering the Content: A Step-by-Step Guide to Online Course Design and Ko & Rossen: Teaching Online: A Practical Guide.The most immediately useful books about (re-)designing courses for online delivery I’ve come across so far, though I wish both moved faster and went deeper. I understand that course design (online or otherwise) is as hard to teach out of a book as any other kind of design, but I’m still hoping that there’s something as rich and readable as Programming Pearls or GUI Bloopers out there waiting to be found.
CS Mythbusters Video Contest - Home
Apparently, not associated with the mythbusters show, they just "borrowed" the name: "The Canadian Association of Computer Science (CACS) is looking for a way to let high school students know what studying computing is really all about. Who better to explain it to them than you!
Create a video promoting computer science to high school students and enter to win great prizes!"
Philip Greenspun’s Weblog » Ruby on Rails and the importance of being stupid
My enthusiasm for this story has nothing to do with bashing Ruby or Rails. I like this story because (1) it shows the fallacy of credentialism; ... (2) it shows what happens when a programmer thinks that he is so smart he doesn’t need to draft design documents and have them reviewed by others before proceeding ... (3) it shows that fancy new tools cannot substitute for skimping on 200-year-old engineering practices and 40-year-old database programming practices, and (4) it shows the continued unwillingness of experienced procedural language programmers to learn SQL
The Third Bit » Blog Archive » Reassurance Cuddles for CEOs
Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired and author of The Long Tail, gave a talk at the MaRS Centre this morning to promote his new book about the economics of free stuff. I was looking forward to hearing him speak: his resume includes stints at The Economist, Nature, Science, and Los Alamos National Laboratory, so he’s obviously a bright guy.
The talk was crap. There’s no other way to say it.
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Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired and author of The Long Tail, gave a talk at the MaRS Centre this morning to promote his new book about the economics of free stuff
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The talk was crap. There’s no other way to say it. It was superficial, derivative, and stumbling (OK, maybe there are other ways to say it). None of what he said was original (I was going to say “particularly original”, but the qualifier isn’t needed), and he failed completely to back up any of his claims with anything that looked like evidence.
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