We're super excited to announce our long-awaited series on K-5 computing education podcasts! Our podcasts provide insights from discussions among teachers as they consider meaningful research and how they could adopt new practices into their classrooms. For educators,...
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 invitation...
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...
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...
By Dr. Joe Tise, Senior Education Researcher, Institute for Advancing Computing Education If data is a pile of bricks, theory is a building plan. Used together, a house can be built and a valid representation of truth can be uncovered. This is why learning theories...
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...
By Dr. Joe Tise, Senior Education Researcher, Institute for Advancing Computing Education The stark limitations of behaviorist theories of learning gave rise (in part) to cognitive theories of learning, the most prominent of which is information processing theory...
By Dr. Joe Tise, Senior Education Researcher, Institute for Advancing Computing Education In light of these two influential (albeit largely opposing) theories of learning, we see that both theories account for unique aspects of learning despite their limitations....
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...