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Amy smiling with her hair down with a a sunset and beach in the background.

Winter sabbatical update: Code, community, huakaʻi

12/2022
personal academia

White water rapids below a blue sky, lined with trees.

Life off Twitter

11/2022
personal academia

A blurry collection of unfocused pink lights amidst a background of bluish grey.

Academia needs to dream bigger

10/2022
academia

Amy in sunglasses, a sun cat, against a backdrop of sand, waves, and blue skies.

Autumn sabbatical update: Reconnecting, reinventing, recovering

9/2022
academia computing education diversity productivity

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ICER 2022 trip report: Together again, as bits and atoms

8/2022
trip report computing education

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Dagstuhl trip report: Educational programming languages

8/2022
trip report K-12 teaching computing education

CSTA 2022 trip report: teaching, equity, and a bit of professional healing

7/2022
trip report K-12 teaching computing education

A group photo of the Dagstuhl castle of every attendee in the workshop on a staircase.

Dagstuhl trip report: theories of programming

7/2022
trip report programming languages software engineering HCI science

A blue sky with clouds

6/2022
academia personal

I'm (mostly) leaving Twitter

6/2022
HCI information

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On the internet, we are all bystanders

5/2022
society gender HCI

A view of a stage, a large projector screen, and hundreds of people staring at them.

CHI 2022, ECEP 2022, equity oh my

5/2022
trip report HCI computing education

A group of Google protesters outside a Google building, 'My outrage can't fit this sign.'

A guide to student activism in computing education

4/2022
academia diversity computing education

Amy smiling at the camera with a backdrop of eclectic objects in a restaurant.

I'm a happy trans kid!

4/2022
personal gender

A 1980's photo of a women with curly hair in a recliner nursing a baby with a bottle and a small child holding a stuffed panda on the floor.

Life at the limit

3/2022
personal productivity

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A visit to Ann Arbor to discuss equity, justice, and engineering education

3/2022
trip report computing education society

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We will not be caged

3/2022
gender diversity society

The SIGCSE 2022 registration booth.

SIGCSE 2022 Trip Report: Reunited

3/2022
trip report computing education

A child assembling legos.

On pacing and programming pedagogy

2/2022
programming languages computing education

A photograph of the in-person Dagstuhl attendees with a screenshot of the virtual attendees in Zoom.

Dagstuhl trip report: People, programs, and programming errors

2/2022
programming languages computing education

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Tinkering towards semi-seamless hybrid classroom discussions

1/2022
teaching K-12 academia

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Programming evolves, privilege reigns

1/2022
computing education programming languages

A silhouette of road signs set against a pink, orange, and blue sunset.

Finding hope in the year 2122

12/2021
society automation policy

Several applications of computing, including VR, news, robotics, information, and automation.

Critically Conscious Computing — A new book for secondary CS educators

12/2021
computing education

A succession of printed journal issues, fading grey to the left, with a light bulb, question mark, thought bubble, database, and exclamation point leaping out on the right.

I’m the new Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Computing Education

11/2021
computing education academia

A glass jar full of coins and a small baby plant growing out of it.

The price of a gender transition

11/2021
personal gender

Amy laying on white sheet, smiling at the camera.

9/2021
personal gender

A screenshot of the ICER 2021 Clowdr landing page.

ICER 2021: A daily dose of digital discourse

8/2021
trip report computing education

An illustration of a flame, or perhaps a vulva.

I’m Having Bottom Surgery, Yay!

7/2021
personal gender

An illustration of a grey slanted tower with a stick figure working in front of a screen in the top. The background fades from blue on the top to red on the bottom; the grass at the foot of the tower fades from green to yellow to brown, to black.

Tips for squandering tenure

6/2021
academia

A screenshot of an Ohyay room showing several circular video feeds of student faces, several doodles, and a chat full of banter.

Research, advising, and vulnerability

6/2021
academia diversity gender productivity

A screenshot of the RESPECT Whova landing page, showing navigation and overview text.

RESPECT 2021: Toward justice-focused computing education

5/2021
trip report computing education

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Dark thoughts in trans solitude

5/2021
gender personal

"Making Waves, Combining Strengths", with several links to program, sessions, accessibility, sponsors, posters, and more.

CHI 2021 trip report: "trying to establishing connection…"

5/2021
trip report

An illustration depicting an instructor in the center of a circular room with glowing red displays, several circular tables with students with glowing red laptops, and several floating faces at the periphery, also glowing red.

Imagining equitable hybrid learning

5/2021
ed tech teaching

A screenshot of Ohyay showing Amy, a slide that says 'What did you think of that activity? (Use emoji reactions)', and several floating emoji reactions.

Ohyay and the pedagogical power of emojis

5/2021
ed tech teaching

A four panel strip. Top left: stick figures and virtual attendees all on computers. Top right: Collaboration at a table. Bottom left: independent activities. Bottom right: Out in the world as seen through the window.

My hybrid conference wishlist

4/2021
academia

9 month old Amy smiling and crawling on a wooden deck.

Learning to love myself in photos

4/2021
personal gender diversity

A collage of all 18 chapters of the book, showing 90,000 words and dozens of images, arranged in a row with varying height columns of text.

I wrote a book about information!

4/2021
design diversity information society teaching

A three stick figures joyfully dancing on three grey face coverings.

The gender transition that wasn't

3/2021
personal gender

2021 SIGCSE Technical Symposium: Virtual Diffusion

3/2021
trip report computing education

A photograph of the Data Feminism jacket cover, showing the title "Data Feminism", authors Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, and a backdrop of hundreds of data visualizations.

Decoding Data Feminism

3/2021
book summary computing education society

A screen shot of Zoom, showing Amy's screen in the top left and several gray rectangles with student names like 'student1', 'student2', and 'student3'.

Zoom is a vile teaching tool

3/2021
HCI teaching ed tech

Women holding a sign that says 'I just had sexism'

Encounters with male fragility, as a man, as a woman

2/2021
gender personal

A photograph of a crumbling, dirty school hallway of a school in New Jersey.

The U.S. has categorically failed its K-12 teachers, and thus itself

2/2021
K-12 society

A blocky grey robot stands in front of a desk an inelegantly operates a mouse and keyboard.

My robotic pandemic productivity

2/2021
personal productivity

A photograph of the book over showing a robotic butterfly and the book title, blurred in the background.

A Review of Computer Science in K-12, An A to Z Handbook on Teaching Programming

2/2021
K-12 book summary computing education

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Work, play, rest, recover

1/2021
personal

A protester holds up their homemade sign on a box that says, 'Black Trans Lives Matter No Justice No Peace'

Anti-Black racism hurts us all

1/2021
diversity gender society

Two wavy horizontal watercolor lines, one purple, one green, woven together.

The shortest day

12/2020
personal

A feminine figure leaning over, head facing down, pushing against two walls grey walls of an enclosure.

What trans liberation means to me

12/2020
personal gender society

A screenshot of Google search with the query 'is google oppressi' and the suggestion 'what is oppression google scholar'

Noble’s “Algorithms of Oppression” indexes search engine bias

11/2020
book summary diversity information society

A Scratch program that, when clicked, redundantly updates a character's speech bubble to say 'editor!' 28 times.

Block-based what? Differentiating programming languages, environments, and editors

11/2020
K-12 computing education ed tech programming languages teaching

A photograph of a display showing a slide titled "Critical Computing Education", with an iPad hovering above showing Zoom.

Encouraging more critical computing: A (virtual) trip report

11/2020
academia computing education trip report

Joe Biden holding the hands of Sarah McBride.

My trans rights wish list for the Biden administration

11/2020
personal gender policy society

A photo of a Black Lives Matter protest showing a row of police on the left and a row of protested on the right

Having hard classroom conversations

10/2020
computing education society teaching

An illustration of a Terminator robot with a thought bubble that says IF OBJ.IS_HUMAN DESTROY OBJ

The half life of computing education

10/2020
computing education society K-12

A sad, scared child hiding in a dark room with yellow light shining under the door frame.

Coming out (of hiding)

10/2020
personal diversity gender

My daughter at age 2, asking to be held.

My parenting past and present

9/2020
personal diversity gender

The cover of Black Software, with a Black Lives Matter fist.

Processing the untold histories McIlwain’s “Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter”

9/2020
diversity book summary

An illustration of an egg, cracking.

What a year for a gender transition

9/2020
personal gender

A figure showing four types of programming language knowledge

Studying programming language learning: a 3-year recap

9/2020
computing education grant report programming languages

University of Washington Cherry Blossoms

I led an anti-racist CS education reading group this summer

8/2020
diversity policy society

A screenshot of the book cover of Automating Inequality.

A generational reflection on Virginia Eubanks’s "Automating Inequality"

8/2020
diversity book summary policy society

A screenshot of the ICER 2020 Discord, showing people introducing themselves.

ACM ICER 2020 trip report: virtual serendipity

8/2020
academia diversity computing education trip report

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Fifty trans hurdles

8/2020
personal diversity academia society

A woman in a bubble, staring out at three angry men yelling at her.

Taking refuge from the internet

7/2020
personal diversity information society

Dark Matters, Artificial Unintelligence, Joy of Search, Automating Inequality, Algorithms of Oppression, Black Software

Computer science taught me that books weren't important. It was wrong.

7/2020
academia personal computing education

A photograph of Amy when she was an infant, laying on her belly

I turned 40; here’s what I’ve learned

7/2020
personal diversity

An interpretation of Rodin’s “The Thinker”, a top Ruha Benjamin’s stunning book.

Reflections on Ruha Benjamin’s "Race After Technology"

7/2020
academia computing education diversity personal book summary

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Our undergraduate program is racist

6/2020
academia computing education diversity

Angry red white and blue squiggles.

What it feels like to lose civil rights

6/2020
personal diversity society gender

A group of stick figures collaborating in various ways, with a green stick figure in the middle (the designer) participating.

A synopsis of Costanza-Chock’s “Design Justice”: nothing for us without us

6/2020
computing education design diversity society book summary

Three grey-blue blobs, one vertical, one circular in slight motion, and one oblong, racing to the future.

My strained relationship with radicalism and pragmatism

6/2020
computing education diversity personal society policy

A red, green, and blue thread, squiggly and overlapping, terminating in a point on the right.

Ideas from the Code and Cognition Lab (2020 edition)

6/2020
computing education diversity programming languages

A beast on the left, squatting, and a woman on the right, sitting, with her arm around its back.

My slow escape from gendered self-loathing

5/2020
personal diversity gender

A crowd of people rushing to a locked safe space to escape a firey cloud.

On the inherent injustice of admissions

5/2020
academia diversity

Multiple layers of faded colors surrounding a struggling person, with a smear through the top pointing a way out.

Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”: a manifesto on education and social change

5/2020
society diversity teaching book summary

Four groups of stick figures chatting in a hallway, but with dashed grey borders around each person.

On the future of academic conferences

5/2020
academia

A comic strip of a stick person pushing the world hello to another person, but it collapses, jumbled.

The motive is the message

4/2020
personal HCI

A photograph of Amy as an infant reaching for books on a bookshelf.

My new appreciation for history

4/2020
personal diversity society

A blue sky with red fragments of digital devices being sucked into a grey cloud.

An autobiographical synopsis of Kentaro Toyama's "Geek Heresy"

4/2020
computing education personal diversity society book summary

A water color illustration of the Danish geographic silhouette wrestling the Chinese geographic silhouette.

Work ethic and hygge in a time of social distancing

3/2020
academia personal

40 small thumbnails of my research, teaching, and service statements and my CV.

I'm a Professor!

3/2020
academia personal

A grid of black rectangles with people inside each, doing different activities. In the center, a woman cross-legged.

Gender transition in a pandemic

3/2020
personal gender

A photograph of the Oregon Convention Center.

SIGCSE 2020 Trip report: viral edition

3/2020
academia computing education trip report

Many fuzzy coronaviruses falling upon a calendar laying flat, with me hanging on the edge of the calendar trying to escape.

The fragile refuge of routines in a time of uncertainty

3/2020
academia personal

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Dealing with demands for change

3/2020
academia personal

A person being electrocuted by red tendrils, but those tendrils transform into straight lines after passing through.

Dealing with academic critcism

2/2020
academia personal

A watercolor sketch of Amy's face.

A profile in choosing beauty

2/2020
personal gender

An illustration of a stick figure's thought bubble, with a faded mirror of the bubble in grey.

The false dichotomy of teaching and research

2/2020
academia teaching science

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The fuel of discovery

1/2020
academia personal

A pencil sketch of a rectangle fading from dark solid black to a diffuse fog.

What is the role of academia in a post-truth world?

1/2020
academia society

A locked diary with words 'KEEP OUT'

Writing for myself and others: a reflection on academic blogging

1/2020
academia

A photograph of adolescent Amy programming at her computer.

A autobiographical synopsis of Morgan Ames’ “The Charisma Machine“

1/2020
computing education diversity K-12 gender book summary

An erratic, sharply jumping plot of ups and downs, with watercolor backdrop.

Transition and overcommitment

12/2019
academia personal gender

An illustration of hundreds of papers being sorted past a red peer review line.

A modern vision for peer review

12/2019
academia

A panoramic of the Koli National Park.

Koli Calling 2019 trip report: Computing education research at the limits

11/2019
computing education trip report

A photograph of me presenting at Koli in front of my slide.

21st Century Grand Challenges for Computing Education

11/2019
computing education academia policy diversity science

Blue tendrils interleaved with pink ones.

Finding my voice (literally)

11/2019
personal academia gender

A photograph of Janet Gordon in front of a slide of CS definitions.

What counts as computer science in K-12 education?

11/2019
computing education policy trip report

A photograph of the Spokane sunset.

Trip report: Bridging CS for All across western and eastern Washington

11/2019
academia computing education policy trip report

A photograph of attendees chatting after the workshop.

PLATEAU 2019 trip report: building community around human aspects of programming languages

10/2019
academia design HCI programming languages trip report

An illustration showing a stick figure yelling the name 'Amy' at a wall, but it's bouncing off into a pile. A set of corporate logos behind the wall.

100 hours of name change labor

10/2019
academia personal information HCI gender

A photograph of Amy smiling at her desk.

What coming out as trans should look like

9/2019
academia personal gender

A fuzzy trans pride flag, with a small face peeking out of it.

I'm trans! Call me Amy.

9/2019
academia personal gender

A photograph of a ballroom of CSEdCon attendees.

CSEdCon 2019 trip report: a deep dive into CS education policy

9/2019
K-12 policy computing education trip report

A pink cloud outlined by a sharp pink line.

Human-centered definitions of computer science for public education

9/2019
K-12 policy computing education

A photograph of the standing 2019 graduating class of the MHCI+D program

A graduation speech on responsible design

8/2019
software engineering society HCI industry diversity

An illustration of a smiley face evolving from a shriveled raisin to a happy face.

Changes coming to the ACM ICER conference

8/2019
academia computing education

A photograph of the ICER 2019 audience, sitting around round tables.

ACM ICER 2019 trip report: leveling up on theory, statistics, and significance

8/2019
computing education trip report

A photograph of the ACM Education Advisory Council meeting.

2019 ACM Education Advisory Council meeting: it’s complicated!

8/2019
academia K-12 teaching computing education trip report

A stick figure teacher with green good intentions in their mind, perceived as oppressive red lines by a row of scared students.

Teaching, power, consent, and paternalism

7/2019
academia K-12 teaching computing education

A photograph of my summer task grid on my whiteboard.

Managing overcommitment in academia

7/2019
academia productivity

A sketch of arrows aiming for targets and missing their mark.

The transfer problem in computing education

7/2019
computing education academia

A black and white photograph of attendees at the Dagstuhl having conversations.

Dagstuhl trip report: learning and teaching programming language semantics

7/2019
computing education K-12 trip report programming languages HCI

An aibrushed sketch of a university building with an US flag embedded in its center.

The academic freedom behind American freedom

7/2019
academia society

A panorama of the STEM pre-service teacher preparation workshop showing several faculty in conversation.

Preparing future STEM teachers for our computational future

6/2019
computing education K-12 trip report

Four yellow puzzle pieces with different changes, each altered in succession, with little stick figures inside playing.

Some amateur thoughts on change

6/2019
academia society

An illustration of Pac Man eating a series of research papers.

Finding time to read in academia

6/2019
academia productivity

A sad looking illustrated person's head with a rigid angular red frame outlining it's form

On the academic quantified self

5/2019
academia

A photograph from the ETH Zurich campus.

A visit to ETH Zurich Computer Science

5/2019
academia trip report computing education K-12 ed tech

A photograph of the CHI 2019 plenary showing a few attendees waiting for the keynote to start.

CHI 2019 trip report: the interlocking threats of HCI and learning

5/2019
academia trip report ed tech computing education automation accessibility

A stick figure person running from a swarm of letters.

Email, Slack, and messaging, oh my! How I triage email and other requests

4/2019
academia productivity tutorial

A stick figure person on the left sitting and reading a book while a group of three others talk.

On being an introvert in academia

4/2019
academia diversity personal

A series of seven stick figure faces, three on each side of the one in the middle looking angry, the middle looking anxious.

Reflections on my academic insecurity

4/2019
personal academia

A photograph of attendees of the teaching accessibility workshop sitting around circular tables.

Teaching accessibility in higher education computing courses

4/2019
accessibility academia computing education

A photograph of the organizers of the SCRIPT workshop providing context for the day.

Tips for implementing CS for All in radically decentralized public K-12 education

4/2019
K-12 computing education diversity

A screenshot of Super Mario Bros.

My evolving relationship with video games

3/2019
personal

SIGCSE 2019 Trip Report

3/2019
trip report computing education

Two rows, the top with the grades F through A, and the bottom with increasingly happy smiley faces.

Grading is ineffective, harmful, and unjust: let's stop doing it

3/2019
teaching diversity academia

The problem with learnability in human-computer interaction

2/2019
HCI argument

A photograph of a hearing room in the Washington state senate.

CS education policy: how a (state) bill becomes a (state) law

1/2019
policy computing education

An illustration of a stick figure person choosing from three paths heading into the horizon.

Competing priorities in doctoral student advising

1/2019
academia advising tutorial

Two stick figures, one tall, angry, and spewing red onto one short, cowering, and afraid, with bloodied paper on the ground.

A critique of academic criticism

1/2019
academia argument

A purple silhouette of a mountain range below blue skies with black binary digits transformating into black strokes along the ridgeline.

Big ideas about information

12/2018
information computing education academia

An illustration of a website saying 'click me'

A rant about journalism on learning to code

12/2018
computing education

An illustration of four gold stars followed by a light bulb.

Credit versus discovery in academia

11/2018
academia argument

An illustration of a paper that has been marked up and annotated.

My peer review wishlist

11/2018
academia argument science

A photograph of the opening talk of the DUB 2018 retreat.

The State of DUB: Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Washington

10/2018
trip report academia HCI

A photograph of the Mary Gates Hall commons.

Reflections on a decade of professoring

9/2018
academia personal

Masters in HCI+Design commencement speech: design, values, and organizations

8/2018
argument HCI

A photograph of colorful housing Helsinki, Finland.

The 2018 ACM International Computing Education Research Conference in Espoo, Finland

8/2018
trip report computing education

A photograph of Jane Prey leading a discussion.

2018 ACM Education Council meeting

8/2018
trip report computing education policy

A scan of Darwin's sketches of finches.

It's easier to ignore diversity in schools

7/2018
teaching diversity

Stock photograph of someone exploring some mountains.

Four years of studying exploratory programming

7/2018
academia software engineering computing education grant report

A photograph of the opening plenary of the ICSE 2018 conference.

ICSE 2018 trip report: 50 years of software engineering

6/2018
trip report software engineering

A rendering of the new UW Computer Science building.

The invisible work of equity in higher education computing and information science

6/2018
academia computing education diversity

A photograph of me giving my invited talk at ICSE.

Ten years after the Whyline

6/2018
software engineering automation personal

A photograph of me sitting next to two Andy's at a conference.

Research, teaching, and service, oh my

6/2018
academia

A photograph of the crumbling Parthenon in Athens.

Defending truth, one dissertation at a time

5/2018
academia advising science

The first slide of my keynote showing the talk title.

Grand challenges in program comprehension and software repository mining: my keynote on interdisciplinarity and research relevance

5/2018
academia software engineering

A photograph of the inside of Meow Wolf, an indescribable interior space.

Meow Wolf: the art of immersive, ubiquitous computing

4/2018
trip report HCI

An ancient illustration of jugglers.

On academic split attention

4/2018
academia argument

Stock photo of silhouettes of graduates throwing their caps up.

The joys and perils of teaching doctoral students

4/2018
academia advising

A photograph of me reading from notes at a Dagstuhl workshop.

How should one year of academic work be judged?

3/2018
academia

A photograph of a talk during the 2018 iConference showing attendees in stadium seating.

iConference 2018 trip report: information science, computing education, and HCI converge

3/2018
information HCI trip report

Stock photo of a silhouette of a mother holding a baby in the park.

A parenting guide to CS learning

3/2018
K-12 computing education

A panoramic shot of the 2018 SIGCSE plenary showing hundreds of attendees in chairs.

SIGCSE 2018 trip report: CS for All!

2/2018
computing education trip report

A photograph of the attendees of the Dagstul workshop standing on the stairs.

Designing and evaluating programming languages: Dagstuhl trip report

2/2018
trip report programming languages HCI

A photograph of a TI graphing calculator.

How I learned to code

2/2018
computing education personal K-12

A selfie of me about to give an invited talk at Stanford's HCI seminar.

A visit to Stanford HCI

1/2018
trip report HCI

A clip art robot shooting laser eyes.

Why people shouldn't learn to code

1/2018
computing education

The Fisher Price Think & Learn Code-a-Pillar.

On toys that teach coding

12/2017
computing education K-12

An image of me nuzzling my daughter Ellen as a baby.

How I (sometimes) achieve academic work life balance

11/2017
productivity academia

ASCII art of an eye.

What makes software valuable?

11/2017
software engineering argument society

A greyscale scattering of solid rectangles.

On the short half-life of research prototypes in computing

11/2017
academia science

A selfie of me with my Northwestern hosts.

A visit to Northwestern University: CS for All, CS+X, and Interdisciplinary Learning

10/2017
trip report HCI computing education

A screenshot of the first slide of Ben's keynote.

What's wrong with blocks languages according to Ben Shapiro

9/2017
K-12 computing education

Stock photo of code.

I wrote a short book about human and social aspects of software engineering

9/2017
software engineering

A photograph of Alan Blackwell's keynote slide, showing his head exploding.

VL/HCC 2017 trip report: programming and play

9/2017
trip report software engineering HCI

Jonathan Lazar (left), an exemplary public intellectual in HCI, receiving the SIGCHI Social Impact Award at CHI 2016.

On the public in public intellectual

9/2017
academia

Me and my advisor, Brad Myers, graduating with my Ph.D.

Most PhDs aren't professors

9/2017
academia advising

My selfie with the Upward Bound students on my last day of class in summer 2017

How Upward Bound guides bootstrapping U.S. teens into higher education

8/2017
K-12 diversity computing education academia

A photograph of the ICER 2017 attendees viewing a talk.

The bleeding edge of computing education research: ICER 2017 trip report

8/2017
trip report computing education

Jackson Pollock’s 'Untitled', a sea of brown splattered paint.

We need to learn how to teach machine learning

8/2017
trip report computing education

A figure from our research paper showing data about who participated in the study.

Informal mentors and teen interest in learning computing

8/2017
K-12 computing education

Me and Scott Barker laughing during a photoshoot.

What is it like to chair an undergraduate program in an Information School?

7/2017
information academia

Mindstorms: what did Papert argue and what does it mean for learning and education?

7/2017
K-12 computing education

Stock photo of a cover sheet saying 'syllabus'

How to design a class

7/2017
teaching tutorial

A photograph of a manufacturing robot making a car.

Automation, education, and the looming skills deficit

6/2017
automation society software engineering

Two screenshots of Lightbot and Gidget.

Coding tutorials: the good, the bad, and the ugly

6/2017
computing education paper ed tech

A photograph of a bookshelf of technical books for learning to code.

Why learn to code?

6/2017
computing education argument

Stock photo of teamwork.

Managing software teams in academia and industry

6/2017
software engineering academia

A screenshot of the IdeaGarden prototype showing helpful content.

Support programming problem solving with contextual help

5/2017
computing education K-12

A photograph of the TeachAccess faculty bootcamp.

Accessibility 101: An afternoon at the TeachAccess bootcamp

5/2017
trip report accessibility

The ICSE 2017 banquet, in a swanky club full of food stands

ICSE 2017 trip report: people, process, and program analysis

5/2017
trip report software engineering

The DUB party in a restaurant at CHI 2017 showing hundreds of attendees.

CHI 2017: Automation, Agency, and Learning

5/2017
trip report HCI

A photograph of my INFO 360 class, showing students working together.

How to be a great (CS) teacher

5/2017
computing education teaching tutorial

A staged photograph of the team at AnswerDash making a design decision.

Nine factors that shape software evolution

5/2017
paper software engineering

Andy Begel giving Paul Li's talk at the CHASE workshop in front of a projector screen.

What makes software developers great cross-disciplinary collaborators?

5/2017
software engineering paper

Amanda Swearngin giving her CHI talk at a podium.

Genie: Automatically adding mouse, keyboard, speech, and other input to websites

5/2017
paper HCI accessibility

A photograph of Jake Wobbrock, Parmit Chilana, and myself.

What five years of early career research funding buys the world

4/2017
academia software engineering HCI grant report

A screenshot of a colorful table from a strategic plan.

A glimpse into state-level CS education policy implementation

4/2017
K-12 policy computing education

The book cover of Jonathan Grudin's book on the history of HCI.

Review of Grudin's "From Tool to Partner: The Evolution of HCI"

1/2017
HCI book summary

A photograph of students sorting notecards on the ground.

How I applied learning sciences to undergraduate design education

1/2017
teaching academia tutorial

Stock photo of a multiple choice test.

Assessment is a computing education grand challenge

12/2016
computing education teaching

A screenshot fo the first slide of my keynote

My SPLASH 2016 keynote: A human view of programming languages

11/2016
programming languages software engineering argument

A grotesque rendering of Donald Trump's face.

Two truths: how science masked rural decay

11/2016
science society

A cake of Gidget the robot.

What does $600K in NSF research funding buy?

10/2016
academia computing education grant report

Stock photo of a person staring at a lake.

A defense of sabbatical

9/2016
academia

A photograph of me with my Upward Bound students.

My sabbatical stretch goal: teaching high school CS

9/2016
computing education K-12 personal

A photograph of Dastyni Loksa giving his talk on self-regulation.

ICER 2016 trip report

9/2016
trip report computing education

A panoramic shot of the Snowbird conference, showing the backs of many CS department chairs.

Snowbird trip report: automation, education, and academia

7/2016
trip report computing education

Silhouettes of elephants.

The invisibility of prior knowledge

7/2016
argument K-12

Stock photo of a stack of old books.

Textbooks are awesome

7/2016
argument teaching information HCI

What makes a great software engineer?

6/2016
paper software engineering

Software and globalism sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g

6/2016
automation society software engineering

A panoramic shot of the capacity building workshop.

Why hire people with disabilities? The value of diversity in software teams

6/2016
software engineering accessibility trip report

My sabbatical research pivot

5/2016
academia computing education

Programming, power, and responsibility

5/2016
software engineering society automation

If learning to code were like learning to write...

3/2016
computing education argument

Coding bootcamps versus universities

3/2016
software engineering computing education academia argument

Fifty privileges

2/2016
diversity

The invisibility of failure in computing education

2/2016
computing education argument

Making money versus making knowledge

2/2016
academia industry

Design and the limits of automation

1/2016
HCI automation

The service implications of interdisciplinarity

1/2016
academia science

Learning contexts across the lifetime

1/2016
teaching ed tech

A black and white photo of homeless people in Pioneer Square.

Startup good and evil

12/2015
industry diversity

Privilege and CS1

12/2015
diversity academia computing education

The black hole of software engineering research

10/2015
software engineering academia

The Apple Watch on my wrist.

5/2015
review HCI

10/2014
academia

Illustrations from Gidget.

Gidget, a 21st century approach to programming literacy

9/2014
computing education ed tech

The screen of the TI-82 graphing calculator.

Computer science, information science, and the TI-82

6/2014
computing education ed tech K-12 personal

Programming languages are the least usable, but most powerful human-computer interfaces ever invented

3/2014
programming languages argument HCI

Startup life versus faculty life

1/2014
academia industry personal

My family driving into dusty Burning Man.

9/2013
personal trip report

The economics of computing for all

4/2013
computing education policy argument

9/2012
information HCI argument review

Reflections on conference papers and journals

9/2012
academia science

A data visualization of how much the public spent on my education: each person gave me 4 cents.

A personal note on public funding for education

8/2012
society academia diversity

John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering

8/2012
review software engineering

Ageism in academia

7/2012
diversity academia

UW MSR Summer Institute on Crowdsourcing Personalized Online Education

7/2012
trip report computing education

Computing, jobs, and lumps of labor

7/2012
society automation software engineering

A photograph of my design class.

Feedback, learning, and massive open online courses

6/2012
teaching ed tech

Machining is now coding

3/2012
computing education software engineering automation society

The double-edged sword of efficiency

1/2012
software engineering society automation

What's in a frame?

1/2012
information automation

What do professors do all day?

11/2011
productivity academia

Abstraction appropriation

4/2011
society automation

Does automation free us or enslave us?

1/2011
automation society

Decision making in software engineering

12/2010
review software engineering

What makes code different than other media?

11/2010
software engineering society

Software quality and ideology

8/2010
software engineering argument argument

Future me gets all the attention

8/2010
productivity

A photograph of a reception of nearly all men at the Mozilla summit.

Mozilla Summit 2010 and dev culture

7/2010
trip report industry software engineering

Mozilla Summit 2010, day 0

7/2010
trip report industry

Dealing with teacher guilt

6/2010
teaching

Teaching and presenting with the iPad is broken

4/2010
teaching ed tech

What the iPad is and isn't

4/2010
review HCI

My juxtaposition on the ipad

3/2010
HCI review

Spreadsheet error costs time and money, yet again

3/2010
software engineering society

Managing time management

12/2009
productivity

Emerson interview (part 2); writing software engineering research for HCI venues

10/2009
software engineering academia personal

Emerson Murphy-Hill interviews me on software engineering research (part 1)

9/2009
software engineering academia personal

What's surprising?

9/2009
academia science

The semblance of objectivity in numbers

5/2009
information science

On Edward Tufte's flat teaching

4/2009
trip report review

Halfway home: The India Software Engineering Conference

2/2009
trip report software engineering

Halfway to India

2/2009
trip report software engineering

Why do researchers choose the disciplines they do?

1/2009
academia science

1/2009
information

Sketching with words

12/2008
software engineering

Rhetorical devices

11/2008
academia

11/2008
teaching academia

1/2008
society automation

Mediated living

1/2007
society automation

On the role of empiricism in applied sciences

12/2006
academia science

On the static versus dynamic typing debate

10/2006
programming languages HCI

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