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CS doesn’t have a monopoly on computing education: Programming is for everyone

Computing Education Research Blog

I was on a panel Assessments for Non-CS Major Computing Classes (see the ACM DL paper here ). Her talk was particularly relevant to me because she emphasized how she is studying business students, not computer science students her research is about how non-CS students interact with computing and programming.

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Best Academic Research Tools for Researchers and Educators

Educators Technology

While my academic background is in the social sciences and more specifically educational studies, I believe that regardless of your discipline, social sciences or natural sciences, the research process, structurally speaking, is more or less the same.

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Best STEM Summer Camps In Des Moines (2024)

The Maker Mom

These STEM programs introduce students to technology concepts from an early age and show them how fun science and tech can be. Whether based on the nature sciences or focused on engineering and coding, Des Moines has opportunities for every future scientist or techie. Children ages 6-17 can join the morning or afternoon camps.

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9 Good Collections of Videos for Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

Topics include earth sciences, nature, science, technology, history, space, the human body, sports, politics, philosophy, and more. Check123 describes itself as a video encyclopedia filled with engaging, professionally-produced movies that run between one and three minutes. Education.com Songs.

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The Concept of the Ruliad

Stephen Wolfram

Think of it as the entangled limit of everything that is computationally possible: the result of following all possible computational rules in all possible ways. And it’s one that I think has extremely deep implications—both in science and beyond. The full ruliad is in effect a representation of all possible computations.

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

See also: “Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT” » It’s Just Adding One Word at a Time That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially like human-written text is remarkable, and unexpected. But how does it do it? And why does it work?

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

And all I’ll be able to do here is give a snapshot of my current thinking—which will inevitably be incomplete—not least because, as I’ll discuss, trying to predict how history in an area like this will unfold is something that runs straight into an issue of basic science: the phenomenon of computational irreducibility.

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