The CS-Ed Podcast

22/09/2025

A new CSEd podcast launched, The Rest is Teaching! We enjoyed their second episode on a potential framework to teach code comprehension to introductory students: https://uki-sigcse.acm.org/2025/09/03/episode-2/ The framework is presented in a CEP paper https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3573260.3573266

Episode 2: Quintin Cutts on modelling Code Comprehension It’s all very well getting an AI to write your code for you but neither writing code or reading code are the same as understanding code. So what is going on in novices brains when they learn to actually understand the code they are read...

15/09/2025

GenAI’s impact on the social fabric of the learning environment is important to consider. Here is an ITiCSE ‘25 paper that interviewed students to understand the potential impact. The results are troubling and point to the possibility that GenAI is interfering with social interactions and leading to multiple negative consequences.

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08/09/2025

Here’s an interesting framing of how using AI is a process, just like searching the internet is a process. The AI hype that “you can rely on the first answer it gives” isn’t right, but neither is the anti-hype that “sometimes it’s wrong, so you should never use it.” Instead, this article argues we should teach a process for using it.

Just as there is "search" and there is "search process" there is a process around AI-assisted investigation too -- and we should teach it

01/09/2025

In this teaching practice byte (TPB), we talk to Professor Emeritus William G. Griswold about his teaching practice Meet the Professor, where he has short, small-group meetings with every student in his 200+ student course. Bill originally shared this practice as a SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2024 experience report. In our conversation, we discussed how the practice fosters engagement, why group meetings proved better than one-on-one, how such connections are increasingly valuable as AI tools reduce traditional social interactions, and his latest updates and reflections on the practice since his experience report.

A Large-Course Intervention for Increasing Rapport

25/08/2025

Here's a useful scale to help you think through how much students can use AI on an assessment. It also includes language to students explaining what they can/cannot do!

Resources and information for the AI Assessment Scale (AIAS)

18/08/2025

School is starting for many of us! So here's something you can use today: Artificial Intelligence Disclosure (AID) Framework. A method for creating a "citation" for AI use. The first step to understanding how students use AI is to give them a consistent, concrete way to disclose it.

The Artificial Intelligence Disclosure (AID) Framework: An Introduction

11/08/2025

A new term we like: jagged. It describes how AI performance is inconsistent. We learned it from the TeachLab podcast's new series called The Homework Machine. The latest episode highlights how giving such an unpredictable tool to students can be troubling, especially compared to the tools we typically give them.

LLMs are weird. They can perform very well and very poorly, often unpredictably, and that creates unique challenges for education.

04/08/2025

ICER 2025 is happening! Learn the latest on computer education research in the proceedings.

28/07/2025

Found a great learning science resource with blog + podcast. Posts are tagged by audience so you can filter for 'teachers' and jump straight to things like primers on cognitive load theory written to help us understand how to support students.

We are cognitive psychological scientists interested in research on education. Our main research focus is on the science of learning. (Hence, "The Learning Scientists"!). Our Vision is to make scientific research on learning more accessible to students, teachers, and other educators.

21/07/2025

We're digging into the archives to remind you about this fantastic episode featuring Mark Guzdial on living coding and active learning. The core advice? process > product, mistakes == learning, and peer instruction is valuable!

Modeling the process, managing mistakes, and making predictions.

07/07/2025

New Episode!

In this episode, Dr. Lindsay Jamieson, Teaching Professor and Associate Dean of Teaching Faculty for Northeastern’s Khoury College, shares her journey from a small liberal arts college to being Associate Dean of Teaching Faculty. We discuss what teaching-focused careers entail, how to assess positions, and what support and growth look like in these roles. Lindsay offers advice for making career shifts and reminds us that it’s always okay to change course if your current job doesn’t fit.

Understanding teaching-focused careers and finding the right fit.

30/06/2025

We loved this video on AI in a writing class! It features useful framing and thoughtful ways to authentically engage students about AI use and provides concrete steps, such as an AI disclosure agreement form for students.

Presenter: Chris Ostro, University of Colorado – BoulderDescription: In the last few years many tools have quickly emerged that can successfully complete man...