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I will be recruiting an iSchool or CSE Ph.D. student during the Autumn 2026 admissions cycle, to start Autumn 2027. I'm excited to work with and fund students interested in critical, liberatory CS and AI education. Have questions that aren't answered here? Write me. Do not send CVs, reesearch proposals, or ask for a meeting: just apply and I will read your application.

Amy J. Ko, Ph.D.

she/her Professor Associate Dean for Academics The Information School Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering [courtesy] College of Education [courtesy] University of Washington, Seattle - Editor-in-Chief, ACM TOCE - Co-Director, CS for All WA - Co-Director, Reciprocal Reviews
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I will be recruiting an iSchool or CSE Ph.D. student during the Autumn 2026 admissions cycle, to start Autumn 2027. I'm excited to work with and fund students interested in critical, liberatory CS and AI education. Have questions that aren't answered here? Write me. Do not send CVs, reesearch proposals, or ask for a meeting: just apply and I will read your application.

These are books I've authored or edited.

Unlike print books, they are digital, searchable, interactive, and web accessible. I write them on Bookish.press, a platform I created to write simple, beautiful, accessible web-based books. The books are also living documents: I update them regularly with new ideas, citations, and chapters, especially in response to feedback.

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Teaching Accessible Computing. A book for computing educators who want to integrate accessible computing concepts and skils into computer science courses.
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Critically Conscious Computing: Methods for Secondary Education. A book for secondary educators who want to teach CS from critical lens, examining it from technical, sociotechnical, and sociopoitical stance.
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Foundations of Information. This book covers information, and all of the things that intersect with it: power, politics, oppression, data, knowledge, encoding, metadata; information technology, management, and policy; and the many domains in which information is crucial, including science, social media, automation, health, democracy, and sustainabiity. It serves as the foundation of our survey course on information, INFO 200 Intellectual Foundations of Informatics.
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Informatics Teaching Guide. Supports new higher education teachers, including new faculty, guest faculty, doctoral student teachers, and teaching assistants. It uses our undergraduate Informatics program for examples, but is in essence a practical, but also research-informed introduction to teaching in a university.
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User Interface Software and Technology. An online, self-published book that surveys the past, present, and future of user interfaces from theoretical, practical, and ethical perspectives.
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Cooperative Software Development. An online, self-published book that covers software engineering fundamentals, but from a human, social, collaborative, and organizational perspective, rather than from a purely technical perspective.
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Design Methods. An online, self-published book that surveys HCI and Design methods in a simple, accessible, and direct manner.

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