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We have just launched the @umichLSA Program in Computing for the Arts and Science website! #computingFor lsa.umich.edu/computingfor
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Carl explains the risk of GenAI. While you might be able to complete your current task with GenAI, understanding is about relating new ideas to old ideas. If you offloaded the old ideas to GenAI, you don't have them to relate to new ones.
*NEW POST* Is Understanding Just "Remembering in Disguise”? Revisiting @DTWillingham's aporism in light of a new paper by John Sweller and colleagues.
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I find #5 to be an incredible important systematic change. In a survey conducted a few years ago of APCSA teachers it was discovered that at some schools, students were required to take 2 or even 3 cs courses before APCSA, which is meant to be a CS1 course. Huge access barrier!
This is the most important paper on Broadening Participation in Computing that I have read in years. Highly recommended. cacm.acm.org/research/10-sy…
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This is the most important paper on Broadening Participation in Computing that I have read in years. Highly recommended. cacm.acm.org/research/10-sy…
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Required reading for every intro to programming teacher, for CS or non-CS majors. cacm.acm.org/opinion/teachi…
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Dr. Aadarsh Padiyath finishes his PhD: GenAI contracts, adversarial thinking, and ethics without whistleblowing computinged.wordpress.com/2026/10/19/dr-… @the_ideal_1
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Blocked homework vs interleaved homework?
Mixing topics and spreading practice across assignments was associated with higher final exam scores in university calculus, with larger estimated benefits among students who had lower earlier scores. nature.com/articles/s4153…
Mixing topics and spreading practice across assignments was associated with higher final exam scores in university calculus, with larger estimated benefits among students who had lower earlier scores. nature.com/articles/s4153…
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This post has stayed with me bc I'm an author on the paper, and have worked on solutions for years -- because recognizing that LLMs are stochastic parroters is super helpful for pinpointing solutions. Here's a thread on solutions! 🧵
"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
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Congrats to CSE Prof. Mark @guzdial & collaborators at UMD & Carleton College on $172.8K in @NSF funding for REPS-AI! 🎉
The project helps students across disciplines use GenAI responsibly while keeping learning at the core. 🤖💻
🔗 myumi.ch/MppZx
#GenerativeAI #EdTech
The project helps students across disciplines use GenAI responsibly while keeping learning at the core. 🤖💻
🔗 myumi.ch/MppZx
#GenerativeAI #EdTech
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Congrats to MichealNayebare @kwameporterrob1 @roneglash @audreygbennett @guzdial
New paper: "Understanding online conversations through fractal dimension."
@umsi @UMichiganNews @BlackInRobotics @UMRobotics
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New paper: "Understanding online conversations through fractal dimension."
@umsi @UMichiganNews @BlackInRobotics @UMRobotics
link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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Tammy and I made a video about our new paper: “Once you’re teaching, you’re consumed with so much!”: A longitudinal study of factors influencing teachers’ beliefs about teaching critical data literacy in social studies
youtu.be/Kpc9HpWPz5U
youtu.be/Kpc9HpWPz5U
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Michigan’s public universities since 2010.
Same state. Same demographics. Same broad economic environment. Similar excuses for decline. U of Michigan, Michigan State, and Michigan Tech grew. The directional universities are all down a lot, and several regional publics lost a eir enrollment.
substack.com/@deleotrepide4…
Same state. Same demographics. Same broad economic environment. Similar excuses for decline. U of Michigan, Michigan State, and Michigan Tech grew. The directional universities are all down a lot, and several regional publics lost a eir enrollment.
substack.com/@deleotrepide4…
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One more time for this one: dtwuva.substack.com/p/students-sho…
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New NSF project with David Weintrop and Jean Salac helping students (CS and non-CS) to use AI in responsible, ethical, and pedagogically sound (REPS-AI) ways. @SaladwithaC cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/nsf-gr…
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Super excited that @KathiFisler just won the ICER Lasting Impact Award for her 2014 (solo!) paper, "The recurring rainfall problem", which reopened and finally made progress on a 30 year old open education question!
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/26…
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Point, Shoot, Gone
Yes, your phone has an excellent (photographic) memory but unfortunately, you don’t get to borrow it. There’s no usb-cable or Bluetooth connection from your phone to your brain.
paulkirschner173727.substack.com/p/point-shoot-…
Yes, your phone has an excellent (photographic) memory but unfortunately, you don’t get to borrow it. There’s no usb-cable or Bluetooth connection from your phone to your brain.
paulkirschner173727.substack.com/p/point-shoot-…
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I was asked this week about the differences between engineering education and computing education. Here's one way of seeing the contrast >>
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Here's the mission of ASEE (asee.org/about-us/who-w…): ASEE advances innovation, excellence, and access at all levels of education for the engineering profession. >>
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