Computer Science

First Name: 
Betsy Swann
Biology, Computer Science, Implementation, Physics, Science, Standards, Technology
First Name: 
Bradford Mott
Professional Title: 
Research Scientist
Organization/Institution: 
North Carolina State University
Computer Science
First Name: 
Ethan Danahy
LinkedIn URL: 
http://www.linkedin.com/in/edanahy
Professional Title: 
Research Assistant Professor
Organization/Institution: 
Tufts University
About Me (Bio): 
Ethan Danahy is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department Computer Science at Tufts University outside of Boston MA, having received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science in 2000 and 2002, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2007, all from Tufts. Additionally, he acts as the Engineering Research Program Director at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), where he manages educational technology development projects while researching innovative and interactive techniques for assisting teachers with performing engineering education and communicating robotics concepts to students spanning the K-12 through university age range.
URL: 
http://www.ceeo.tufts.edu
http://www.cs.tufts.edu
Computer Science, Engineering

ScratchEd: Working with Teachers to Develop Design-Based Learning Approaches to the Cultivation of Computational Thinking

Submitted by Karen Brennan on Tue, 12/07/2010 - 9:11pm
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Presenter(s): 
Karen Brennan
Mitch Resnick
Event: 
2010 DR K-12 PI Meeting
Year: 
2010
Month: 
December
File: 
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CADRE-ScratchEdPoster.pdf

In this poster, we describe the goals of our research, our proposed model for professional development, our framing of design-based approaches to learning, and our framing of computational thinking.

First Name: 
Luo Si
Professional Title: 
Assistant Professor
Organization/Institution: 
Purdue University
About Me (Bio): 
Luo Si leads a research group working on exciting topics of information retrieval, machine learning, intelligent tutoring, text/data mining for life science, and natural language processing. He has published more than 60 journal and conference papers. His research has been supported by National Science Foundation, State of Indiana, Purdue University and industry companies such as Yahoo! and Google. He is an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Information System (TOIS) and an editorial board member of Information Processing and Management (IPM). He has been an Area Chair for ACM SIGIR (2007-2010), WWW (2010) and CIKM (2008,2010). He obtained NSF Career Award in 2008.
URL: 
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/lsi/
Computer Science
First Name: 
David Payne
Professional Title: 
Developer Team Lead
Organization/Institution: 
Radford University
Computer Science
First Name: 
Corey Brady
Professional Title: 
President
Organization/Institution: 
Inquire Learning
Computer Science, Mathematics, Science, Technology
First Name: 
Karen Brennan
Professional Title: 
Doctoral Student
Organization/Institution: 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
About Me (Bio): 
I am a PhD student in the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab.
Classroom Practice, Computer Science, Educational Technology, Technology, Teacher Practice
First Name: 
Mitchel Resnick
Professional Title: 
Professor
Organization/Institution: 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
About Me (Bio): 
Mitchel Resnick, Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab, develops new technologies and activities to engage people (especially children) in creative learning experiences. His Lifelong Kindergarten research group helped develop the LEGO Mindstorms robotics kits, Scratch programming software, and the Computer Clubhouse network of after-school learning centers. Resnick earned a BS in physics from Princeton, and an MS and PhD in computer science from MIT. He has consulted and lectured around the world on innovative uses of new technologies in education.
URL: 
http://www.media.mit.edu/~mres
http://llk.media.mit.edu
http://scratch.mit.edu
http://scratched.media.mit.edu
21st Century Skills, Cyberlearning, Computer Science, Educational Technology, Technology
First Name: 
Uri Wilensky
Professional Title: 
Professor
Organization/Institution: 
Northwestern University
Computer Science
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