Teaching CS

(Un)productive Failure (and Success)

Four ways to teach

Oct 2 • 

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July 2025

Rawls vs. Einstein

Why some debates never end

Jul 1 • 

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June 2025

Perceived Obligations

An obstacle to active learning

Jun 2 • 

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April 2025

Productive Failure

HRV and the potential benefits of increased cognitive load

Apr 30 • 

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February 2025

GenAI's Impact on Critical Thinking

And the importance of self-confidence

Feb 21 • 

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December 2024

Recap post - 2024

I plan, for as long as this newsletter lives, to make the last post of every year a 100-word (or less) summary of each post published earlier that year.

Dec 20, 2024 • 

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October 2024

Increasing intrinsic motivation

Pick carrots that look tastier

Oct 18, 2024 • 

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September 2024

The Widening Gap

GenAI can create an illusion of confidence

Sep 11, 2024 • 

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July 2024

Taking photos impairs memory

Attentional disengagement and cognitive offloading

Jul 29, 2024 • 

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June 2024

Is live coding worth it?

More students thought the instructor should slow down

Jun 28, 2024 • 

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May 2024

Learning about learning

Memorizing is good, in some sense

May 17, 2024 • 

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April 2024

Why pseudocode?

Let's not miss the forest for the trees

Apr 5, 2024 • 

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