ComputingEd@
Welcome to ComputingEd@UW, a community of UW faculty and students passionate about 1) research about how people learn computing and 2) the practice of how people teach computing.
Our community spans faculty and students from:
- The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE)
- The Information School (iSchool)
- The College of Education
- The department of Human-Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE)
- The Department of Communication
Join the computinged@uw.edu mailing list to get infrequent announcements. Join the ComputingEd@UW Slack to participate in discussion, message the community, discuss papers and conferences, and more.
How do I meet people in the community?
- Attend the quarterly Sound CS Ed meetup, which brings together researchers, teachers, policy makers, curriculum designers, learning technology creators, and other people passionate about computing education from across Puget Sound.
- Visit a Puget Sound CS Teachers Association meeting, which brings together CS teachers from around the region.
- Engage in a computing education research project.
- Engage in one of the ways to learn to teach computing above.
- Review the many opportunities to get involved in CSE.
How do I participate in research?
There are many ways to get started:
- Read the Computing Education Research FAQ to learn about the field.
- Visit the CSE 590E Computer Science Education seminar. It's got a graduate level course number, but it's open to students at all levels. It often discusses computing education research papers and their application to CS teaching.
- Join one of Amy's lablets, in the Code and Cognition Lab. These are informal research gatherings amongst students, led by Amy and her postdocs and doctoral students.
- Reach out to any of the faculty and students in the community to chat about research opportunities.
How do I learn to teach computing?
That depends on the level at which you want to teach.
- Interested in middle or high school?
- Read about the College of Education's STEP CS program, an interdisciplinary partnership between the Allen School, The Information School, and the College of Education to prepare middle and high school CS teachers. The FAQ linked above has everything you need to know.
- Interested in college-level teaching? There are many ways you can learn:
- Become a CSE or Informatics teaching assistant, both of which entail some training.
- Review the general teaching resources at the UW Center for Teaching and Learning.
- Not sure? That's okay! There are some ways of learning more about pathways.
- Watch the time schedule for CSE 492T Equitable and Inclusive Computer Science Pedagogy Seminar, which talks about all of these pathways.
- Consider taking EDUC 251 Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity, EDC&I 351 Teaching as a Profession, and E E 406 Teaching Engineering
- Tutor with the Center for Learning and Undergraduate Enrichment (CLUE), the Engineering Academic Center (EAC), or the Instructional Center.
Who's in the community?
Below is an alphabetized list of faculty and students who've asked to be listed as part of the community. To be listed here, tell us about yourself and we'll add you. We refresh this page at the end of each Spring quarter to keep it fresh.
| Ruth Anderson | Associate Teaching Professor | CSE |
| Rahul Banerjee | PhD student | CSE |
| Bob Boiko | Teaching Professor | iSchool |
| Lauren Bricker | Associate Teaching Professor | CSE |
| Brock Craft | Associate Teaching Professor | HCDE |
| Diana Dai | Undergrad | CSE |
| Andrew Davidson | Associate Teaching Professor | HCDE |
| Matt Davidson | PhD student | Education |
| Sayamindu Dasgupta | Assistant Professor | HCDE |
| Katie Davis | Associate Professor | iSchool |
| Jayne Everson | PhD student | CSE |
| Emilia Gan | PhD student | CSE |
| Katie Headrick-Taylor | Assistant Professor | Education |
| Justin Hsia | Associate Teaching Professor | CSE |
| Ari Hock | PhD student | Education |
| Omar Ibrahim | Masters | CSE |
| Lucy Jiang | Undergrad | CSE |
| Richard Ladner | Emeritus Professor | CSE |
| Jialin Li | PhD student | CSE |
| Kevin Lin | Assistant Teaching Professor | CSE |
| Amy J. Ko | Professor | iSchool |
| Benjamin Mako-Hill | Assistant Professor | Communication |
| Sean Munson | Associate Professor | HCDE |
| Niral Shah | Assistant Professor | Education |
| Jasper Tran O'Leary | PhD student | CSE |
| Alannah Oleson | PhD student | iSchool |
| Hal Perkins | Associate Teaching Professor | CSE |
| Pratyush Patel | PhD student | CSE |
| Yim Register | PhD student | iSchool |
| Joel Ross | Associate Teaching Professor | iSchool |
| Mara Kirdani-Ryan | PhD student | CSE |
| Jean Salac | Postdoctoral Scholar | iSchool |
| Hunter Schafer | Assistant Teaching Professor | CSE |
| Abduselam Shaltu | Undergrad | CSE |
| Meron Solomon | Undergrad | Design |
| Steve Tanimoto | Professor | CSE |
| Kyle Thayer | Assistant Teaching Professor | iSchool |
| Linda Vong | Undergrad | CSE, Education |
| Jason Yip | Associate Professor | iSchool |
| Robbie Weber | Assistant Teaching Professor | CSE |
| Brett Wortzman | Assistant Teaching Professor | CSE |
| Aaron Zhao | Undergrad | iSchool, Education |
| Annuska Zolyomi | Assistant Teaching Professor | Computing & Software Systems, UW Bothell |
We also have many former members who have moved to other institutions. Here are their affiliations from when they were here at UW:
| Anne Drew Hu | Undergrad | CSE, Education |
| Dastyni Loksa | PhD student | iSchool |
| Greg Nelson | PhD student | CSE |
| Benjamin Xie | Postdoc | iSchool |