[4eyes] Fwd: [FACULTY] TODAY Colloquium - Diana Franklin

[Tobias Hollerer]

This may be of interest to several of you working on information 
dissemination and social computing.
Unfortunately, I'll have to give a MURI review presentation in parallel, 
but I hope some of you will be able to attend.

Cheers,

Tobias

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Subject: 	[FACULTY] TODAY Colloquium - Diana Franklin
Date: 	Wed, 19 Nov 2014 08:05:37 -0800
From: 	Jennifer Martin <jmartin at cs.ucsb.edu>
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*UCSB Computer Science Department Presents:*

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Wednesday November 19, 2014

3:30-4:30pm

Room 1132 Harold Frank Hall

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*/Title:/*Â Computing Education Research:Â

Pushing the Borders of Computing Today to Educate the Innovators of 
Tomorrow  Â

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*/Speaker:/*Diana Franklin, LSOE

                       Computer Science 
Department, UCSB

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*/Abstract:/*//

Computing Education is fast becoming a critical societal need and a core 
research area within Computer Science. Efforts by the White House and 
code.org have raised awareness that Computer Science will be an 
essential component of most disciplines and occupations. Yet high school 
or college may be too late to develop the depth of skills across the 
breadth of students who need CS to innovate in the next generation. To 
understand how CS can be introduced earlier, we require basic research 
in how students of various ages learn computer science concepts.

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In this talk, I will look at three areas of Computing Education 
Research: Learning environments, big data research methods and 
fundamental learning questions. I will first present the work we have 
completed in those areas. I will then present compelling research 
questions that arose from our work and how computer science core areas 
such as programming languages, machine learning, natural language 
processing, and HCI can be applied to support computing education research.

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*/Bio:/*/Â /

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Diana Franklin is tenured teaching faculty (Lecturer with Security of 
Employment) at UC Santa Barbara. Franklin received her Ph.D. from UC 
Davis in 2002. She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award and an 
inaugural recipient of the NCWIT faculty mentoring award. She was an 
assistant professor (2002-2007) and associate professor with tenure 
(2007) in Computer Science at the California Polytechnic State 
University, San Luis Obispo, during which she held the Forbes Chair. 
Her research interests include computing education research, parallel 
programming and architecture, and ethnic and gender diversity in 
computing. She is the author of "A Practical Guide to Gender Diversity 
for CS Faculty," from Morgan Claypool.

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-- 
Jennifer Martin
Academic Personnel
Department of Computer Science
UC Santa Barbara
jmartin at cs.ucsb.edu
805-893-2207



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