Welcome on Chris Proctor

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Research consulting supporting Constructionist Computer Science (ISF).

TechBuffalo panel

Introduction 
 
 
 Who I am. 
 
 My role in supporting innovation fellows. 
 LAI 686 theory + design 
 
 
 
 Questions from audience: bring them! 
 
 
 Panelist introductions 
 
 
 Panel questions
Q1. How do we think about designing educational technologies? What kinds of goals might we aim for? What kinds of hypotheses can we…

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AI@ISF Meeting with Paulo, Jonathan, Diana

Finances: 
 
 Let Diana know what a sabbatical would look like. 
 
 Meeting this afternoon: 
 Pedagogical challenges and opportunities 
 
 MWC/DP alignment 
 Issues we could emphasize, but don’ want to. 
 
 What do we mean by AI/ML? 
 
 
 
 Emma: Scikit-learn 
 
 Models: training, evaluation, 
 Embedding 


Grace Xing Research Component

Feedback on paper 
 Overall feedback 
 
 The paper is well-written, carefully argued. Nice job being in dialogue with the literature. 
 We need more situated, sociocultural research on CT, especially in early childhood. The constructs you introduce here, including positioning and family systems, are promising. 
 My big ask: Where’s the CT? RQ1 asks about engagement, but…

The Song Need Not Remain the Same: AI Literacies in the Lives of Youth

With greater and greater frequency, we find ourselves in conversations, meetings, and even invitations for writing where the term AI lit- eracy or AI literacies (often used interchange- ably) is named as if it had a commonly shared and stable definition. In the contexts of edu- cation policy, teacher education, and research on learning we are experiencing an urgency driven by funders and popular…

Conversation with Doug Lampert

All that work we did with

The next four years of education research in the US

The next four years of (computing) education research in the US 
 
 
 History of futures of education research 
 
 
 Follow the money 
 
 NSF Dear Colleague letters 
 
 
 
 Paradigm-building projects.cite[1] 
 
 
 Technological 
 
 
 NSF 
 
 Ten Big Ideas 
 
 
 
 PCAST 
 
 
 Policy papers…

Feedback on Jake's application materials

Research statement 
 
 I found your research statement very impressive: substantial, interesting, comprehensible to a non-expert. The research focus section is particularly well-crafted. 
 This may be me reading across disciplines, but I see you emphasizing keywords like “trustworthy” and “explainable algorithms” that have been part of the public discourse on…

"Growing as a person": Developing Identity and Agency Across Formal CS Education and Everyday Computing Contexts

To understand how learners develop identities in computer science (CS), we must investigate learners’ experiences with computing throughout their lives. Drawing from a theory of learning as participation in communities of practice, we analyze interviews with high school students at the end of their time in a 2-year, constructionist CS course to better understand how these students’ CS education…

MultiMod: A platform for qualitative analysis of multimodal learning analytics.

Multimodal analytics are increasingly important for research on learning, equity, and justice in our digitally-mediated world. However, challenges to using multimodal analytics in research include selection, analysis, technology, and ethics. We present MultiMod, a platform for aggregating, selecting, analyzing, and presenting multimodal texts. A case study of multimodal sensemaking,…

2023 ISLS Early Career

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Rethinking computational thinking

Teaching and learning with computational media

CS teacher…

2023 ISLS Early Career

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UB Mini-Workshop 
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- Tools, platforms, interfaces for teaching and learning in and out of school
- CS curricula, teacher…

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2023 Computing as a partner in design

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2023 Itau Social Talk

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- Assistant professor of Learning Sciences at UB
- PhD at Stanford with Paulo
- Current role: CS teacher preparation…

2023 LS Brazil

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Escola Anual de Ciências da Aprendizagem 
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May 13, 2023 
 
 

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- Assistant professor of Learning Sciences at UB
- PhD at Stanford with Paulo
- Current role: CS…

ML in society presentations

Misconduct in police force 
 
 Connections:
 
 Clare Baldwin’s work in the Philippines: using ML to
anaylze large public-ish datasets 
 Consent decree research in Oakland (voice recordings) 
 
 
 Theoretical framing: What’s the problem? (New Jim Crow?) 
 
 Discouraging people from supporting racism 
 
 In the “High Level…

Computational thinking

Computational thinking, defined by Wing (2011) as the “thought processes involved in formulating problems…so that the solutions are represented in a form that can effectively be carried out by an information-processing agent,” has become the central construct of K12 computing education around the world. This article provides a history of computational thinking, a summary of…

2022 CSTA Midwest is Best Unconference

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2022-08-23-tltlab

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TOCE Review

Summary 
 Traces chain of research -> pedagogy -> teaching via IT professionls 
 Notes to expand 
 
 
 lots of thoughtful summaries and glosses of research 
 
 
 Not a lot of literature on workplace learning. CSCW? Unpublished work? Summary thin. 
 
 Teacher preparation litearture? (Particularly as the survey comes from teacher PD) 
 
 
 
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Joint visual attention and collaboration in Minecraft

In the service of a project organizing social futures (Penuel & O’Connor, 2018) in virtual worlds, this paper develops methods for analyzing collaboration in Minecraft through joint visual attention (JVA) and other multimodal learning analytics, and contributes a software package for doing so. We continuously calculate each player’s position, gaze vector, and the block upon which their gaze falls…

Credentialing computation: Empowering teachers in computational thinking through educator microcredentials

This chapter details Digital Promise’s development and implementation of educator micro-credentials (MCs) in computational thinking (CT). As one of the leading national organizations around competency-based education for K-12 teachers, Digital Promise has been offering a wide range of educator MCs since 2012. The organization first developed its micro-credentials in computational thinking in 2016,…

Learning-Centered Design: Methodologies for the Design of Learning Technologies and Environments.

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A Revaluation of Computational Thinking in K-12 Education: Moving Towards Computational Literacies.

Over the past decade, initiatives around the world have introduced computing into K–12 education under the umbrella of computational thinking. While initial implementations focused on skills and knowledge for college and career readiness, more recent framings include situated computational thinking (identity, participation, creative expression) and critical computational thinking (political and…

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BPS Planning

Work with Build and School 6: We aready have relationships with them. 
 How does this fit into my scholarship? 
 
 CS PCK 
 CS teacher learning 
 Interdisciplinary ELA/CS 
 
 Would it make sense to have someone thinking about the school leaders? 
 CS TEACHER PREP 
 
 Are there intersections with the residency program? 
 
 Pull-out: Is it the math…

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World Park Website II

World Park website requirements specified via contract and meeting with Richard Weller August 6, 2020. PO# 4693212

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GSE Writing Retreat notes

I am supposed to give a 10-15 minute talk at the beginning of the writing
retreat on writing… I just can’t imagine what might be useful in the abstract.
A few quickies: 
 
 Two modes of writing:
 
 Writing as thinking: Time spent crafting words and sentences is an
investment in the ideas. 
 Writing as communicating thinking: Outlining saves you from…

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PeerTeach software development

PeerTeach peer assignment features

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