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Monthly Archives: January 2013
STEM Hijacked?
I’ve gone to a number of STEM conferences locally and a few nationally. In nearly all cases, all I’ve ever heard about is engineering. In fact a local STEM conference I’ve attended for 8 years had a single panel discussion … Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Joseph Kmoch
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Intro
My name is Joe Kmoch from Milwaukee, WI and one of several regular bloggers on the ACM Inroads site. My orientation will be K-12 since I taught math and computer science for 34 years, 28 of those at Washington HS … Continue reading
Posted in Contributors, Joseph Kmoch
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Examining failure
I had an interesting experience recently on my personal blog that started me thinking about failure and computing education. I’m teaching a new class, and I wrote a blog post in which I discussed my preparations for the first lecture … Continue reading
Posted in Amber Settle, Contributors, Opinion
Tagged computer science, computing, failure, programming, retention
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Can a) b) c) d) Assess Understanding?
As an information technology (IT) faculty member teaching in the systems and networking side of the camp (rather than development), I have always found it important to assess students’ clear understanding of and ability to discuss computing technologies. Because IT … Continue reading
Posted in Mark Stockman, Uncategorized
Tagged assessment, Information Technology, multiple-choice
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