Schlagwort: Research
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Data ethics for computing education through ballet and biometrics
Reading Time: 6 minutesFor our seminar series on cross-disciplinary computing, it was a delight to host Genevieve Smith-Nunes this September. Her research work involving ballet and augmented reality was a perfect fit for our theme. Genevieve Smith-Nunes Genevieve has a background in classical ballet and was also a computing teacher for several years before starting…
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Take part in our research study to develop culturally relevant Computing resources for primary schools
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe are looking for primary schools in England to get involved in our new research study investigating how to adapt Computing resources to make them culturally relevant for pupils. In a project in 2021, we created guidelines that included ideas about how teachers can modify Computing lessons so they are culturally relevant…
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A peer instruction approach for engaging girls in the Computing classroom: Study results
Reading Time: 7 minutesToday, we are publishing the third report of our findings from our Gender Balance in Computing research programme. This report shares the outcomes from the Peer Instruction project, which is the last in our set of three interventions that has explored teaching approaches to engage more girls in computing. The premise of…
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Using e-textiles to deliver equitable computing lessons and broaden participation
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn our current series of research seminars, we are exploring how computing can be connected to other subjects using cross-disciplinary approaches. In July 2022, our speakers were Professor Yasmin Kafai from the University of Pennsylvania and Elaine Griggs, an award-winning teacher from Pembroke High School, Massachusetts, and we heard about their use…
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Are you technocentric? Shifting from technology to people
Reading Time: 7 minutesWhen we teach children and young people about computing, do we consider how the subject has developed over time, how it relates to our students’ lives, and importantly, what our values are? Professor Pratim Sengupta shared some of the research he and his colleagues have been working on related to these questions…
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A pair programming approach for engaging girls in the Computing classroom: Study results
Reading Time: 10 minutesToday we share the second report in our series of findings from the Gender Balance in Computing research programme, which we’ve been running as part of the National Centre for Computing Education and with various partners. In this £2.4 million research programme, funded by the Department for Education in England, we aim…
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Join us at the launch event of the Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre
Reading Time: 4 minutesLast summer, the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology created a new research centre focusing on computing education research for young people in both formal and non-formal education. The Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre is an exciting venture through which we aim to…
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A teaspoon of computing in every subject: Broadening participation in computer science
Reading Time: 6 minutesFrom May to November 2022, our seminars focus on the theme of cross-disciplinary computing. Through this seminar series, we want to explore the intersections and interactions of computing with all aspects of learning and life, and think about how they can help us teach young people. We were delighted to welcome Prof.…
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A storytelling approach for engaging girls in the Computing classroom: Pilot study results
Reading Time: 7 minutesWe’ve been running the Gender Balance in Computing programme of research since 2019, as part of the National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE) and with various partners. It’s a £2.4 million research programme funded by the Department for Education in England that aims to identify ways to encourage more girls and young…
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AI literacy research: Children and families working together around smart devices
Reading Time: 6 minutesBetween September 2021 and March 2022, we’ve been partnering with The Alan Turing Institute to host a series of free research seminars about how to young people about AI and data science. In the final seminar of the series, we were excited to hear from Stefania Druga from the University of Washington,…
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Exploring cross-disciplinary computing education in our new seminar series
Reading Time: 5 minutesWe are delighted to launch our next series of free online seminars, this time on the topic of cross-disciplinary computing, running monthly from May to November 2022. As always, our seminars are for all researchers, educators, and anyone else interested in research related to computing education. Crossing disciplinary boundaries What do we…
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170 research papers about teaching programming, summarised
Reading Time: 3 minutesComputer programming is now part of the school curriculum in England and many other countries. Although not necessarily the primary focus of the computing curriculum, programming can be the area teachers find most challenging to teach. There is much evidence emerging from research on how to teach programming, particularly from projects with…
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Bias in the machine: How can we address gender bias in AI?
Reading Time: 8 minutesAt the Raspberry Pi Foundation, we’ve been thinking about questions relating to artificial intelligence (AI) education and data science education for several months now, inviting experts to share their perspectives in a series of very well-attended seminars. At the same time, we’ve been running a programme of research trials to find out…
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Calling all Computing and ICT teachers in the UK and Ireland: Have your say
Reading Time: 6 minutesBack in October, I wrote about a report that the Brookings Institution, a US think tank, had published about the provision of computer science in schools around the world. Brookings conducted a huge amount of research on computer science curricula in a range of countries, and the report gives a very varied…
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The Roots project: Implementing culturally responsive computing teaching in schools in England
Reading Time: 5 minutesSince last year, we have been investigating culturally relevant pedagogy and culturally responsive teaching in computing education. This is an important part of our research to understand how to make computing accessible to all young people. We are now continuing our work in this area with a new project called Roots, bridging…
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The AI4K12 project: Big ideas for AI education
Reading Time: 7 minutesWhat is AI thinking? What concepts should we introduce to young people related to AI, including machine learning (ML), and data science? Should we teach with a glass-box or an opaque-box approach? These are the questions we’ve been grappling with since we started our online research seminar series on AI education at…
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How can AI-based analysis help educators support students?
Reading Time: 8 minutesWe are hosting a series of free research seminars about how to teach artificial intelligence (AI) and data science to young people, in partnership with The Alan Turing Institute. In the fifth seminar of this series, we heard from Rose Luckin, Professor of Learner Centred Design at the University College London (UCL)…
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How do we develop AI education in schools? A panel discussion
Reading Time: 8 minutesAI is a broad and rapidly developing field of technology. Our goal is to make sure all young people have the skills, knowledge, and confidence to use and create AI systems. So what should AI education in schools look like? To hear a range of insights into this, we organised a panel…
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The machine learning effect: Magic boxes and computational thinking 2.0
Reading Time: 10 minutesHow does teaching children and young people about machine learning (ML) differ from teaching them about other aspects of computing? Professor Matti Tedre and Dr Henriikka Vartiainen from the University of Eastern Finland shared some answers at our latest research seminar. Their presentation, titled ‘ML education for K-12: emerging trajectories’, had a…
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Should we teach AI and ML differently to other areas of computer science? A challenge
Reading Time: 6 minutesBetween September 2021 and March 2022, we’re partnering with The Alan Turing Institute to host a series of free research seminars about how to teach AI and data science to young people. In the second seminar of the series, we were excited to hear from Professor Carsten Schulte, Yannik Fleischer, and Lukas…
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Should we teach AI and ML differently to other areas of computer science? A challenge
Reading Time: 6 minutesBetween September 2021 and March 2022, we’re partnering with The Alan Turing Institute to host a series of free research seminars about how to teach AI and data science to young people. In the second seminar of the series, we were excited to hear from Professor Carsten Schulte, Yannik Fleischer, and Lukas…
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Perspectives on supporting young people in low-income areas to access and engage with computing
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe Raspberry Pi Foundation’s mission is to make computing and digital making accessible to all. To support young people at risk of educational disadvantage because they don’t have access to computing devices outside of school, we’ve set up the Learn at Home campaign. But access is only one part of the story.…