Assistant professor of Learning Sciences @UBGSE. Through critical computational literacies, working to confront oppression and build just, peaceful futures.

Joined January 2017
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It's as good a day as any to leave Twitter. The world has bigger problems, but like stopping eating animals, getting off Twitter is clearly the right thing to do and costs me very little. I'll be working over the next week on migrating, prob to Indieweb and Mastadon. Bye.
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Any word of a Learning Sciences / Computing Ed / Public Academic Mastadon instance? I'd be interested in contributing some time.
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“The major problems of this manuscript is that the authors failed to use quantitative tools… Consequently, this manuscript is full of not-so-convincing verbal discussions. This is THE most important issue this reviewer would like to point out.”
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"A quantitative approach is much more convincing than a verbal summary. Unfortunately, in recent years more CSED researchers aimed for qualitative approaches rather than quantitative approaches."
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"As a result, their results are not very convincing and this type of CSED researcher had a tendency to reject quantitative based work. What a pity!”
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Chris Proctor retweeted
3 Oct 2022
Today on the #CSK8 podcast, @Jared_OLeary unpacks a publication titled “Defining and designing computer science education in a K12 public school district." @thispettypace @MaximizeEDU @PauloBlikstein Listen to the full episode below! youtu.be/aiKPmqiiVqQ
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I have some different sincerely-held beliefs.
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Chris Proctor retweeted
What: An unconference experience planned for you, by representatives of ten different Midwestern CSTA Chapters Where: Virtual (HopIn) Anyone with an interest in K-12 CS Education is welcome, even if you are not from the best part of the country
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I'll never feel the same about ketchup.
If you're attending @ISLS2022, join @MullerDalia and me for a talk on joint visual attention and critical education in Minecraft! Tonight at 7:40pm eastern, whova.com/portal/webapp/isls…

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Impulse-buying domain names.
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I am getting tired of finding files named `:wq` all over my computer.
Getting the spring syllabus ready
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Just released banjo, a simplified abstraction over django for beginning CS students. The design focuses on first experience a full-stack web app while scoping new concepts which need to be learned. pypi.org/project/django-banj…
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Academic freedom, now 38% more efficient with corporate surveillance.
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To be clear, "MyAnalytics" currently claims that after it goes through every minute behavior of my work life, only I see the results. But this is just a rebranding of last December's "Productivity score" for employee surveillance.
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Part of a long pattern of backing off in response to outcry, then gradually re-implementing.