StoryQ is a web-based machine learning and text mining tool that allows young learners (Grade 6-12) to engage in machine learning practices and work with unstructured text data without coding. StoryQ features dynamically linked data representations that ...

Snap! version 7 introduces three big new features: microworlds, scenes, and extensions. Microworlds allow curriculum designers to hide blocks for novice users, allowing them to focus only on the blocks they need. This is similar to Parson's Problems, in ...

During the Spring 2021 semester, stuck in quarantine due to the ongoing global pandemic, I decided I needed to do something completely different with my undergraduate-level Algorithms course. Tired of teaching via Zoom to little boxes, I recreated the ...

HS BRIDGES (https://bridgesuncc.github.io/bridges-hs/) is a collection of programming projects, including "student scaffolds" and "teacher walkthroughs", that use UNC Charlotte's BRIDGES Java Libraries (https://bridgesuncc.github.io/) in order to enable ...

RoboScape Online is a robotics simulation platform designed to reduce the barriers to entry for teachers to use robots as an educational tool in their classrooms. With simulated robots in a shared virtual 3D environment, students can be provided with "...

Past research has shown interactive animations, and those that use real-life analogies in particular, can play an important role in providing the intuition required to understand Computer Science concepts. Nonetheless, the use of analogies continues to ...

Broadening participation in computing (BPC) requires our individual and collective effort. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is leading an effort in the USA to encourage NSF grant awardees and all computing departments to create BPC plans. Panelists ...

Conference presentations usually focus on successful innovations: new ideas that yield significant improvements to current practice. Yet we often learn more from failure than from success. In this panel, we present five case studies of "good ideas" for ...

This lightning talk describes the effort to expand access to computer science at IDEA Public Schools, with a goal of 33% of students enrolling in computer science before graduation. The primary driver of this effort is a 30-school randomized control ...

Minecraft is the most downloaded game in the world, with 8-10 million playing every day. We believe there are four primary reasons for this immense popularity: easy communication while creating and playing in worlds together, and encouragement to ...

Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) is a pedagogical strategy that aims to engage culturally and linguistically diverse students in the classroom, to validate and to empower them (Scott, Sheridan, & Clark, 2014; Gay, 2010). Five commonly described ...

This talk introduces an ongoing study which began Summer 2021. We emulate proof writing in novice programmers by having them explain their solution to logic puzzles in the first week of an intro course, as this contains many of the skills used in proof ...

It well known that women are underrepresented in technology, holding less than 25% of IT positions. Reports of women and minorities being harassed, discriminated against, and abused in technology communities routinely appear in scholarly publications ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered us to explore a new teacher preparation paradigm aligned with Bloom's one-to-one and mastery learning vision. In 1984, Benjamin Bloom reported a phenomenon he named "The 2 sigma problem". In a series of studies, Bloom ...

This lightning talk describes an in-progress project led by the ACM CCECC (Committee for Computing Education in Community Colleges) to enhance the Bloom's Revised Taxonomy verb list with verbs that focus on computing competencies. Many colleges and ...

Girls Immersed in Robotics Learning engages middle school Latina girls in computer science and co-robotics with an immersive narrative of helping a Puerto Rico community recover from a hurricane. We are developing GaleForce, a Unity virtual robotics ...

This lightning talk presents insights from preliminary research on attitudes toward executable exams in an Introduction to Computer Science (CS1) course. In an executable exam, during the exam, students work on a computer in a designated programming ...

CSAwesome is a Java AP CSA and CS1 curriculum with 20,000 users on the Runestone ebook platform. The curriculum is online, free and interactive with embedded Java Active Code examples and problems, mixed-up code (Parsons problems), multiple-choice ...

This lightning talk describes our current efforts to isolate and identify potential threshold concepts and threshold capabilities which are experienced by intermediate computer science undergraduate students. We are utilizing the theoretical framework ...

Despite more than a decade of efforts to broaden participation in computing, Native students and girls are alarmingly underrepresented in computer science (CS) education. Addressing the disparities in access to rigorous, college preparatory CS education ...