Complex technology requires cultural innovations for distributing cognition Over the last decade, new research has shown how human collectives can develop technologies that no single individual could discover on their own. How…

🚨 New paper alert! (slightly belated)

We (with @joshcjackson.bsky.social) suggest that complex technologies, as they need several (often many) people to use them, require innovations that distribute cognition to help regulate cognitive load and coordinate.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Putting together this whole special issue has been an adventure, but one of the most rewarding parts has been the opportunity to write with one of my very favorite cognitive anthropologists - I'll let @schrisomalis.bsky.social sell it for us below!

Spring 2026 PCAS Update: Recruiting a new Lecturer My last update on the University of Michigan’s Program in Computing for the Arts and Sciences (PCAS) was in March 2024 (see post here). I did give some updates when I wrote about our SIGCSE 2025 pa…

Here's a blog post with an update on how we're doing in PCAS and on our search for a new Lecturer. computinged.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/s...

Looking forward to visiting IT University Copenhagen next week! studwww.itu.dk/~brabrand/20...

England: Time to replace Computer Science with Computing This is policy wonk stuff, but I find policy fascinating. As a researcher, it’s hard to figure out “How are most people (students, faculty, whatever) in this field thinking about X?&#82…

England: Time to replace Computer Science with Computing computinged.wordpress.com/2026/02/24/e...

Computing in England - dominated by the algorithmic perspective? - Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre Some of my research colleagues in Germany have recently published a fascinating paper that compares countries in Europe and the type of content they include in their computing or informatics curriculu...

Does computing education *have* to be all about algorithms? New blog post from @suesentance.bsky.social computingeducationresearch.org/blog-computi...

Why teach computing in school: new paper published! - Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre This week, we've published a paper called 'What We Talk About When We Talk About K-12 Computing Education’ that looks at why we teach computing in school. Find out more about the different views on th...

New paper alert! What We Talk About When We Talk About K-12 Computing Education looks at why we teach computing and proposes four traditions for computing education at the school level : algorithmic, scientific, societal and design-making. Read moreL computingeducationresearch.org/blog-why-tea...

GenAI as automobile for the mind, and exercise as the antidote: A metaphor for predicting GenAI’s impact Some of you may remember the Apple ads that emphasized the computer as a “bicycle for the mind.” (From GenAI is not like a bicycle for the mind. Instead, it’s more like an automobile. I’m finding t…

GenAI as automobile for the mind, and exercise as the antidote: A metaphor for predicting GenAI’s impact computinged.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/g...

Personally Meaningful Data to Motivate Learning in Data Science and AI I have written several blog posts about the different ways to implement Media Computation in introductory programming courses. We built JES at Georgia Tech in 2002 and the final release was in 2020…

Personally Meaningful Data to Motivate Learning in Data Science and AI computinged.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/p...

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Love this framing: Does “CS for all” imply that everybody ought to change to accommodate CS, or that CS ought to change to accommodate everybody? journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Defining Learner-Centered Design of Computing Education: What I did on my sabbatical My planned activity during my sabbatical was to revise my 2015 book “Learner-Centered Design of Computing Education.” One of the fixes I wanted to make was a better definition of what “learner-cent…

Defining Learner-Centered Design of Computing Education: What I did on my sabbatical computinged.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/d...

A New Zealand Perspective on the Challenges of Computing Education: What I did on my sabbatical During our sabbatical, Barb and I spent a week in Auckland. We gave talks at the Auckland University of Technology and University of Auckland. Alison Clear (past Chair of the SIGCSE Board) and Tony…

A New Zealand Perspective on the Challenges of Computing Education: What I did on my sabbatical computinged.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/a...

Learning to teach better by observation: What I did on my sabbatical “You can observe a lot by just watching.” – Yogi Berra I had a couple of amazing experiences that made me think about how little we see each other teach and how much can be gained…

Great piece by university computer science teacher @markguzdial.bsky.social (hope I've got the right handle for Mark.....)
computinged.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/l...

ICE agents are executing US citizens with no just cause.

Look, Ma: The latest issue of @acm.org INROADS Magazine features an interview with me. It’s open-access, so you can read up on my incoherent blabberings and old-dude anecdotes about block based programming & friends.
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Search Results for “media computation” – Computing Ed Research – Guzdial's Take How do people understand computing, and how can we improve that understanding?

Yup -- JES still runs, but is hard to install because it's Java. There are lots of other options now for the JES API including Google Colab notebooks, JES4Py in Python 3, and Strype. computinged.wordpress.com?s=media+comp...

Pedagogy Recommendations Parenthetically Speaking: Articles by Shriram Krishnamurthi

Over the years I've been asked many times for advice on pedagogy, what to read to learn more, etc. I've finally put together a bunch of materials into one blog post: Key Advice • Readings • Neuromyths • For Computer Scientists • Classroom Tips. Enjoy!
parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/ped...

Dr. Tamara Nelson-Fromm defends her dissertation: What Debugging Looks like in Alternative Endpoints In May, Tamara Nelson-Fromm defended her dissertation “A Qualitative Exploration of Programming Instruction for Alternative Endpoints in Post-Secondary Computing Education.” I’ve talked about Tamar…

Dr. Tamara Nelson-Fromm defends her dissertation: What Debugging Looks like in Alternative Endpoints @tamaraniac.bsky.social computinged.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/d...

Creating a measure of Critical Reflection and Agency in Computing I stopped blogging while I was on sabbatical because I had to focus on finishing the second edition of Learner-Centered Design of Computing Education. And then we came back from sabbatical. I’d hea…

Creating a measure of Critical Reflection and Agency in Computing - work by Aadarsh Padiyath @the-ideal-one.bsky.social. computinged.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/c...

Preprint w/ (rapid) analysis of Grokipedia, showing it to be “highly derivative of Wikipedia”, but differing, often on controversial topics, in that Grokipedia includes content/cites from low quality (hyper partisan & conspiracy laden) sources like Stormfront & Infowars. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.09685

What's new in Snap! 11 - Data - Extensions - Neural Networks YouTube video by Jens Mönig

Totally agree! I’ve learned so much from this talk. He actually referred to it in the SnapCon 2025 keynote youtu.be/U9W04TEMBUk?... when he pointed to the perceptron sprite code and said something like “that’s for another talk”. And a month later that talk showed up.

🔵 Bottom Line - Teaching Neural Networks with Snap! YouTube video by SAP Developers

Astonishing talk by @jmoenig.bsky.social. From teaching linear algebra using powerful examples in Snap!, then replicates (working code!) the history of perceptrons (from Rosenblatt to Rummerlhart), then creates a NN to recognize musical instruments. SO recommended! www.youtube.com/live/_JSnHmG...

So the ceasefire in Gaza isn't real, people are being kidnapped by ICE all over this country, the government is shut down, and millions of people are about to lose SNAP and healthcare and all of these EXACT SAME THINGS would be happening if the Black lady won in November???

Got it.

Computing has always been a seesawing discipline. We had the AI winters of the 1970s and the 1990s, and we had the dotcom crash and the ensuing “Image Crisis.” It seems another crisis is upon us. Will we ever learn? It is time for some serious thinking! cacm.acm.org/opinion/comp...

Ed-Tech Companies Are Putting AI Before Educator Expertise A guest post from U-M’s Rebecca Quintana.

Rebecca Quintana nails it. "Educational Technology Companies Are Putting AI Before Educator Expertise" @rebquintana.bsky.social

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Why does the NAS Workshop on Discipline-Based Education Research have no speakers from computing education research? With the impact of AI on education, I'd think that CER would be relevant. mailchi.mp/nationalacad...

The No Kings protest in Ann Arbor was all down Stadium from I-94 to the Big House, so that many of the out-of-towners coming in for the game would see it. Yup, got flashed the bird several time. #purplestate #NoKings #NoFascism

We should aim for a broad range people to understand computational technologies, especially AI. lsa.umich.edu/computingfor

Economics Nobel celebrates researchers who showed how science and technology drive growth Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt explained why the past 2 centuries have seen sustained economic growth rather than stagnation

The big answer: Education. Europe taught people things. Understanding becomes key to using and innovating with technology. "Without understanding the scientific principles underlying technology, many attempts at innovation—such as alchemy—were futile.” (www.science.org/content/arti...).

Joel Mokyr wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Nobel recognizes Mokyr’s theory on sustained economic growth

I’m reading about Joel Mokyr who just won a share in the Nobel Prize in economics. 
(news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025...). He’s an economic historian (!) who explains why Europe got the Industrial Revolution and China didn’t, when China had all the elements (e.g., movable type) before Europe.