The interview protocol was meant to capture the 3 pillars of computational literacy and also beliefs, practices, and knowledge.
Our preliminary findings include a cluster of practices, tools, and beliefs within the social pillar. A second cluster of results involve the material and cognitive pillars, which were hard to separate.
We have found it helpful to organize data in terms of the goal-driven activities (e.g., developing a data pipeline for astronomical observations), which are categorized separately from the detailed skills (e.g., loops).
We hope to capture the authentic contexts and the fine-grained skills and knowledge. The diversity of practices within a single discipline is quite large, and we unsure if a comparison between disciplines will be useful with our current data set.
Ben Zwickl visited us last fall as a guest professor. He works as Associate Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology.
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The bi-weekly ODD seminar series at CCSE
The Open Discussions on Didactics (ODD) is a seminar series on Mondays at 13.00 every other week (odd week numbers).
The seminar 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.