The CS-Ed Podcast

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...

23/06/2025

Here's a podcast episode that offers a different way to frame cheating.

Tricia Bertram Gallant and David Rettinger discuss The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI on episode 568 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

16/06/2025

Here is a provocative essay on the interaction of AI and learning. We especially appreciate the use of multiple framings and the concern raised at the end using an illustrative example of how we do not want students to simply copy and paste and not actually learn.

Technology should facilitate learning, not substitute for it.

09/06/2025

We can all use a bit more retrieval practice in our class materials. Here is a whole bunch of ideas!

These nine strategies make it quick, fun, and easy to build retrieval practice into any lesson.

02/06/2025

Here’s an interesting blog post on four common issues with student feedback and how to improve your feedback to better address these issues.

Four big problems about feedback from education research