Join Us at the 2024 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium

Join Us at the 2024 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium

We’re always excited to attend the ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium, and this year is no exception with SIGCSE 2024! You can catch IACE team members (Laycee Thigpen, Joe Tise, Julie Smith, and Monica McGill) at the following events. (Pre-symposium events are...
Key Levers for Advancing K-12 Computer Science Education

Key Levers for Advancing K-12 Computer Science Education

Computer science has become an essential skill for K-12 students, and there is a pressing need to advance K-12 CS education across the nation. To achieve this, there are several key levers that can advance change, including policy changes, teacher training and...
Learning More about Teaching AI

Learning More about Teaching AI

By Dr. Joe Tise, Senior Education Researcher, Institute for Advancing Computing Education Driving into the heart of Washington, D.C. is a unique experience. Mixed with thousands of business people, sight-seers, and the occasional politician shuffling to and fro, is...
Behaviorism Introduction

Behaviorism Introduction

By Dr. Joe Tise, Senior Education Researcher, Institute for Advancing Computing Education At least surface-level familiarity with Pavlov’s experiments and principles of classical and operant conditioning have become almost ubiquitous among the general public. What...
Constructivism and Sociocultural Theory

Constructivism and Sociocultural Theory

By Dr. Joe Tise, Senior Education Researcher, Institute for Advancing Computing Education Behaviorism highlighted the influence of the environment, information processing theory essentially ignored it, and social-cognitive theory tried to strike a balance between the...