Dan Garcia
Jim Huggins
Christine Alvarado
Paul Gestwicki
ABSTRACT
Conference presentations usually focus on successful innovations: new ideas that yield significant improvements to current practice. Yet we often learn more from failure than from success. In this panel, we present five case studies of "good ideas" for improving CS education (most related to the COVID-19 pandemic) that didn't go as planned. Each contributor will describe their "good idea", the situation that resulted, and wider lessons for the CS community.
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- Jonas Boustedt, Robert McCartney, Josh Tenenberg, Scott D. Anderson, Caroline M. Eastman, Daniel D. Garcia, Paul V. Gestwicki, and Margaret S. Menzin. 2008. It Seemed like a Good Idea at the Time. In Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (Portland, OR, USA) (SIGCSE '08). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 528--529.Google Scholar
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- Jonas Boustedt, Robert McCartney, Josh Tenenberg, Edward F. Gehringer, Raymond Lister, and Dave Musicant. 2010. It Seemed like a Good Idea at the Time. In Proceedings of the 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA) (SIGCSE '10). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 558--559.Google ScholarDigital Library
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- Angela Siegel, Mark Zarb, and Teri Balser. 2021. Learning from COVID. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1356.Google ScholarDigital Library
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- It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time (COVID-19 edition)
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