I share with you the first ever DTR annual letter. The letter shares my reflections on mentoring and learning, and on DTR’s evolving culture and practice. This is a personal letter, from me to learners & educators everywhere. l hope you enjoy reading it! DTR.northwestern.edu/letters
Today we release our documentary short film, Forward. The film shows our students learning to self-direct research while growing as people. It shares our unique culture. See why we made the film in 🧵, RT to spread the love, and ENJOY the film🍿🍿🍿! forward.movie
We are excited for PhD student @jamiesarahg to defend her dissertation tomorrow! Good luck Jamie! We can't wait to hear about all of your inspiring work. Jamie is advised by @nellorourke.
Can we design context-aware and AI tech to be more ✨human-experience✨ centered?
Join me to answer this question at the #CHI2022 "AI: Design and Studies" session @ 4:45p - New Orleans Theatre A programs.sigchi.org/chi/2022…
So proud of my students Molly and Neha for their work on MindYoga - a framework that helps students reflect on and improve their process as they learn to lead research in a community! Go ask them hard questions during the #CHI22 LBW session at 3:30 😝 programs.sigchi.org/chi/2022…
I can't wait to share the work I did with colleagues in the @DeltaLabNU on automated detection of student perceptions in the programming process at @AIEDconf. I will be talking in the first paper slot on Wednesday in the Student Modeling track #AIED2021
Today we celebrated Dr. @SpencerECarlson by sharing the ways that Spencer has improved each of our Delta Lab experiences. We hope we can provide the Pomp and Circumstance worthy of your graduation. Congrats! We can not wait to see the impact you're going to make in the world!
Congratulations to @SpencerECarlson for passing his dissertation defense last week! The entire lab couldn't be more proud of you and excited about your work.
In a large survey study across 3 institutions' CS1s by @jamiesarahg:
-Students were more critical of their own actions while writing code than others'
-Students were more critical of themselves when they compared their actions a female's
#ISLS2021eleanorourke.com/papers/self…
This week @schoolgus has been thinking about how insights from behavior change and persuasive technologies might inform the design of systems to support end-to-end collective actions.
Signal boost: @nellorourke was recently awarded an NSF CAREER award. Send her some Twitter love! @jamiesarahg is in a fantastic grad program and presenting an interesting sounding paper. This sounds worth attending if you are able. #ISLS2021
Looking forward to sharing @nellorourke and my work at @isls2021 on Thursday! I will be talking and self-critical bias and gender in CS student self-assessments. See you there! #isls2021#cs1
Looking forward to sharing @nellorourke and my work at @isls2021 on Thursday! I will be talking and self-critical bias and gender in CS student self-assessments. See you there! #isls2021#cs1
Kapil (@kapowgarg) has been prototyping a system to help members of communities of practice develop effective work and learning strategies. He’s looking forward to testing the system in Northwestern’s DTR undergraduate research program soon.
Thrilled to share that I recently received an NSF CAREER award! Excited to continue studying students' programming beliefs and practices through learning analytics, and develop new technologies in this space. bit.ly/3uFi9Wf
Some members of Delta enjoyed Meggin McIntosh's session about summer planning last Tuesday.
Tip: Multiply the time you expect a task to take by *three*. By planning this way you won't be as shocked or stressed when things inevitably go long!
More tips: youtube.com/user/MegginMcInt…
This will be a public talk. Come join the Zoom call from 3-4p central time to learn about how we can reimagine education in service of real world impact!
Thursday, May 27, 2021
northwestern.zoom.us/j/97418…
For @kristinejlu’s dissertation examining the design of social computing systems that help citizens build power to enact policy changes, @hahriehan’s 2015 book on How Orgs Develop Activists has been transformational, esp this examination of engagement afforded by on/offline tech:
ALT An excerpt from How Organizations Develop Activists, "...interdependent, automomous venues for participation, forging a sense of community, and training people in the online and offline skills they need to become leaders or deepen their activism."
We can't wait to meet with @ksm_csed and hear her talk tomorrow at @northwesterncs! Her talk is on how to approach large class data sets to drive class improvements.
Next Thursday, Delta Lab member @SpencerECarlson will be defending his dissertation, Communitarian Learning: Fostering Interdependence to Teach Design Skills in Collective Action!
We are looking forward to celebrating the culmination of his great work these past several years 🥳
ALT Title slide of Spencer's defense presentation
ALT Slide from Spencer's defense presentation: "Studio critique is limited by lack of stakeholder feedback"
ALT Slide from Spencer's defense presentation: "Design projects are limited by focus on creating artifacts"
ALT Slide from Spencer's defense presentation: "Solution: assign projects that require staeholder cooperation"