Educational Technology Seminar (CSE 590et)

Spring 2002

Variable Credits 1 - 3

Announcement:

Sally Fincher and Marian Petre will be visiting the University of Washington on June 7. We will have a special 590ET session to hear them talk about where CS Education is now and where they think it is going. Please attend: Friday, June 7 from 10:30 - 11:20 AM in Loew Hall Room 102.

If you are interested in presenting a particular topic during the quarter, please e-mail Tammy (tammy@cs.washington.edu) and we'll get you on the schedule.

Coordinating Instructors: Richard Anderson, David Notkin

Here are the list of topics that we might cover this quarter. Please sign up for a day and topic if you are interested in presenting.

• Active Learning (notes from Workshop by Jeffrey McConnell)
• Pair Programming/Extreme Programming
• Defensive Climate in a CS Classroom (paper from conference)
• Java IDEs
• Rewrite Cycles in CS (panel from conference)
• Ethics (notes from Ethics Workshop)
• Learning Styles and Introductory CS (paper from conference)
• Lessons Learned by Martin Dickey (FIT 100)

Month	Day	Speaker	Title	Links about Presentation
April	2	Martin Dickey	A proposal
April	9	Lori Postner and Mike Panitz	Teaching at a Community College	Nassau Community College Cascadia Community College
April	16	Ken Yasuhara, Andrew Petersen, and Dmitriy Portnov	Defensive Climate in the CS Classroom	Notes from Discussion
April	23	Steve Wolfman, Nick Deibel and Andrew Schwerin	Teaching Ethics	Scenario to read for discussion
April	30	Martin Dickey	Lessons Learned in FIT 100	Notes from Discussion
May	7	Justin Campbell, Will Portnoy and Harlan Hile	Pair Programming and Extreme Programming	Extreme Programming Slides Pair Programming Slides Discussion Questions
May	14	Chris Waters	Learning Styles and Introductory CS
May	21	Tammy VanDeGrift and Doug Beal	Active Learning (Jeffrey McConnell workshop)	Workshop Notes
May	28	Hannah Tang, Marianne Shaw and Mike Panitz	Rewrite cycles in CS
June	7	Sally Fincher and Marian Petre	Vision for Computer Science Education Research	Note: This is a special session on Friday 10:30 - 11:20 AM in Loew 102

Readings

• April 16: Defensive Climate in the Computer Science Classroom by Lecia Jane Barker, Kathy Garvin-Doxas, and Michele Jackson
• Apriil 22: Ethics scenario
• May 7: The Effects of Pair-Programming on Performance in an Introductory Programming Course by Charlie McDowell, Linda Werner, Heather Bullock, and Julian Fernald
• May 14: 1. Learning Styles and Performance in the Introductory Programming Sequence by Lynda Thomas, Mark Ratcliffe, and John Woodbury
  2. Handout on Memory, Meaning & Method
  3. The Teaching of Learning Strategies by Claire E. Weinstein and Richard E. Mayer, Handbook of Research on Teaching, Macmillan, 1986.
• May 21: Active and Cooperative Learning by Jeffrey McConnell
• May 28: Rewrite cycles in CS Courses: Experience reports by Max Hailperin, Linda Null, Mike Ciaraldi, Liz Adams, and Ursula Wolz
• June 7: Centre for Informatics Education Research (Petre)
  Sally Fincher's home page

Other topics of interest

• Online Education
• Undergrad/Grad CS Curriculum
• Distance Learning
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• Grading Tools
• Teleconsulting
• Size of Program Differences
• Teaching Ethics in a CS/CE Program
• Learning Styles

Other links of interest

• Intro course (service course) at Tufts University
• Short descriptions of CS2 courses compiled by Duke University students
• Duke University Graduate Seminar about CS Education
• MIT's java course. Rethinking CS101 Course materials
• CMU mastery exams 111 112 113
• Article about an Information-Systems Curriculum

Other Papers

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