White House Champions of Change for CS Education: Jane Margolis and Andreas Stefik
January 25, 2016 at 7:46 am 3 comments
Congratulations to Jane Margolis and Andy Stefik, two computing education researchers named by the White House as Champions of Change!
Jane Margolis
Jane Margolis is a researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, where she investigates why so few women and students of color have learned computer science. Based on research discussed in her books Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing and Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race and Computing, she and her collaborators, with support from the National Science Foundation, created Exploring Computer Science (ECS), a high school curriculum and teacher professional development program committed to reaching all students, especially those in underserved communities and schools. ECS now exists across the nation, including in seven of the largest school districts.
Andreas Stefik
Andreas Stefik, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. For the last decade, he has been creating technologies that make it easier for people, including those with disabilities, to write computer software. With grants from the National Science Foundation, he established the first national educational infrastructure for blind or visually impaired students to learn computer science. He is the inventor of Quorum, the first evidence-oriented programming language. The design of Quorum is based on rigorous empirical data from experiments on human behavior.
Source: Champions of Change | The White House
Entry filed under: Uncategorized. Tags: computing education research, public policy.
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thinkingwiththings | January 25, 2016 at 7:53 am
What great news! I’ve long admired Jane; now I have to check out Andreas too. Thanks, Mark, for passing the word. –Sarah
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Barry Webster | January 25, 2016 at 9:22 am
The source link does not work. Try https://www.whitehouse.gov/champions.
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