After almost a decade and a half on this WordPress site (my first post dates from 2011!) I am leaving this site for my new Ghost site hosted at felienne.nl. It looks a bit Dutch still but soon it will be entirely bilingual (as I just noticed now my first post was too!). This site [ ]
In this thorough piece, The American Prospect explains that while some people might hope that universities will save democracy, but that that might be tricky since they themselves are not at all democratic. This piece reminded me of a lecture I gave right before the Christmas break for students about AI education, in which [ ]
We had a teenager over for New Year s Eve, and one of his biggest hobby is to explain to me and my husband ( boomers as he calls us even though we are millenials) what terminally online kids do these days; which words and memes and emoji are still in use. And this is how my [ ]
Next week I will visit SPLASH to present a paper titles A case for feminism in programming language design , co-authored with Ari Schlesinger. A preprint of the paper can be found at the end of this post, if you want to check it out, or in the ACM digital library. I fully understand that this [ ]
Part 1: Lane Assist We recently bought a car, a fancy new car with fancy options like lane assist: a feature that keeps the car in its lane by moving the steering wheel for you. In theory, it is a great feature. In practice, it sometimes fails. Not often, but often enough it will decide [ ]
In a previous post I have tried to describe the reasons I see being used to use LLMs in CS education: 1) professionals use them, 2) LLMs can replace parts of teaching and 3) students will use them anyway so we as teachers have to somehow deal with that. What I am missing a lot [ ]
This Friday I will be in a panel at the SEN symposium (which I was participating in 2 years ago too, talking about autograders) The organizers told me that the discussion will revolve around opportunities, challenges, and potential solutions and I was allowed to discuss one statement. Since they only gave me 7 minutes (and [ ]
I see this argument why stop students if we can t check it anyway so much, so let s dive in a bit! You can t stop students from doing X Firstly, we have been saying things like this for decades, if not longer. Don t collaborate on homework , Do this exercise without a calculator , or when I was [ ]
When I was still hanging out on Twitter every single day, the beauty of that era was that one could learn all sorts of things about all sorts of things. Some of those things I filed away, mentally, for future reference, and some of these surface now and then. A recent of that I remembers [ ]
After an American media frenzy of a few weeks, the new president of Harvard has resigned after the shortest term ever, only 6 months. This saga began with a US congressional hearing in December at which the presidents of drie major universities (all three women) were asked to say something about the increasing anti-Semitism at [ ]