As generative AI tools begin to reshape our world, teachers must be equipped with the knowledge and skills to guide students in understanding and using these technologies responsibly. Our NSF-funded project, Empowering Future Teachers with Generative AI Education, aims to prepare pre-service teachers with a curriculum that highlights both the potential…
We are thrilled to announce that Michigan State University, in partnership with the national non-profit Digital Promise, has been awarded an NSF grant for a project, “Modeling Inclusive Computational Thinking Instruction: Video Cases for Developing Teacher Knowledge.” This work aims to empower elementary educators to embed computational thinking (CT) within…
I am excited lead a new NSF funded project in collaboration with Rick Hill from University of Detroit-Mercy to support high school CS teachers in Detroit. The project will use a sustainable multi-pronged approach to build the capacity of underserved high schools to offer CS curriculum in the metro-Detroit area.…
In a keynote talk given at the The 12th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education (WiPSCE) in Nijmegen (The Netherlands), I discussed how teachers from varied teaching background and computing experiences engage with online professional development materials. I used data from our online just-in-time professional development project (PD4CS), which is designed to support…