Marcos Caballero: "I have lots to say about bigger scale challenges to integrating computation that are unique to the American school system, and I think it would be fun to add to peoples frame on why America is different from other places." Recording from Zoom.
Tor Ole Odden: "The idea of representing information as vectors is deeply embedded in the fabric of online life, appearing in everything from text analysis to recommendation engines. Could this provide a way of introducing early physics students to key machine learning ideas and techniques? I will give three examples of how information can be represented and analyzed via vector spaces, and then kick off a discussion on how we might be able to use this approach at UiO." Recording from Zoom.
This seminar is part of the Odd seminar series at CCSE.
The bi-weekly ODD seminar series at CCSE
The Open Discussions on Didactics (ODD) is a seminar series on Tuesdays at 14.00 every other week (odd week numbers) on Zoom.
The seminar will be maximum one hour, often closer to half an hour. It is an informal arena to present and discuss learning theory, educational research and teaching experiences within computational science. To cater to the highly heterogeneous backgrounds and interests of students, teachers and researchers in our environment, we aim for seminars that introduce listeners to new ideas within a broad spectrum of aspects, and that invites reflection and discussion. Presentations need not be mature and polished - to the contrary we hope that as many as possible wants to share undigested observations and reflections in short presentations of varied form and topics. We hope to have enough contributions to frequently have the meetings as lightning talk sessions, where three different speakers will each give a 5-10-minute presentation followed by discussion.