Fall 2026 enrollment numbers added to my graph. PCAS is continuing to grow. lsa.umich.edu/computingfor
Mark Guzdial
@markguzdial.bsky.social
Professor in CSE, Information, and Education at U-Michigan. Director of PCAS https://lsa.umich.edu/computingfor. Computing Ed Researcher, blogger, dad. https://computinged.wordpress.com/
It's the long-awaited Snap! Version 12 release day! Happy day to all those who celebrate!
Sam Altman Says AI ‘Jobs Apocalypse’ He Once Predicted Probably Won’t Happen. What Changed? “For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees,” he told Axios. time.com/article/2026...
Sam Altman Says AI ‘Jobs Apocalypse’ Probably Won’t Happen. What Changed?
The OpenAI CEO reversed his own dire predictions about AI and employment, but layoffs keep coming.
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Insightful podcast with Shriram Krishnamurthi and Kathi Fisler at Brown on the agentic AI CS class they ran last semester and what they’re planning next. Avoids hype and considers thoughtfully what GenAI means for CS Ed. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... @shriram.bsky.social @kfisler.bsky.social
AI in Computer Science Education
Podcast Episode · Oxide and Friends · May 10 · 1h 29m
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LibraryThing is a great 20 year old way to organize your books and reading, not (yet at least) subject to all of the usual decay of more commercial systems. You can see the last 662 books I've read here: www.librarything.com/catalog/tamc...
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LibraryThing@librarything.com · 2mo agoThe May edition of our State of the Thing newsletter has gone out to more than 1 million subscribers! See the 🧵 below for more details, and be sure to catch up on old issues online. #LibraryThing #StateoftheThing #💙📚 #Booksky
Happy Earth Day! Always a good moment to remember that the incredible student-led "Teach-In on the Environment" was an important precursor to the first Earth Day. @umich.edu heritage.umich.edu/stories/eart...
Earth Day Eve | University of Michigan Heritage Project
How a handful of Michigan grad students launched the modern movement to save the Earth.
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🚨 New paper alert! (slightly belated) We (with @joshcjackson.bsky.social) suggest that complex technologies, as they need several (often many) people to use them, require innovations that distribute cognition to help regulate cognitive load and coordinate. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Complex technology requires cultural innovations for distributing cognition
Over the last decade, new research has shown how human collectives can develop technologies that no single individual could discover on their own. How…
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Putting together this whole special issue has been an adventure, but one of the most rewarding parts has been the opportunity to write with one of my very favorite cognitive anthropologists - I'll let @schrisomalis.bsky.social sell it for us below!
Stephen Chrisomalis@schrisomalis.bsky.social · 8mo agoAt last, the final publication in 'Cognitive Technologies and their Histories': the editorial introduction to the issue in TopiCS, by myself and @helenamiton.bsky.social. 4.5 years since our initial @cogscisociety.bsky.social panel. Free access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Here's a blog post with an update on how we're doing in PCAS and on our search for a new Lecturer. computinged.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/s...
Spring 2026 PCAS Update: Recruiting a new Lecturer
My last update on the University of Michigan’s Program in Computing for the Arts and Sciences (PCAS) was in March 2024 (see post here). I did give some updates when I wrote about our SIGCSE 2025 pa…
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Looking forward to visiting IT University Copenhagen next week! studwww.itu.dk/~brabrand/20...
Computing Education at ITU — March 13, 2026
Two invited talks and a PhD defence at the IT University of Copenhagen, March 13, 2026.
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England: Time to replace Computer Science with Computing computinged.wordpress.com/2026/02/24/e...
England: Time to replace Computer Science with Computing
This is policy wonk stuff, but I find policy fascinating. As a researcher, it’s hard to figure out “How are most people (students, faculty, whatever) in this field thinking about X?R…
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Does computing education *have* to be all about algorithms? New blog post from @suesentance.bsky.social computingeducationresearch.org/blog-computi...
Computing in England - dominated by the algorithmic perspective? - Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre
Some of my research colleagues in Germany have recently published a fascinating paper that compares countries in Europe and the type of content they include in their computing or informatics curriculu...
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New paper alert! What We Talk About When We Talk About K-12 Computing Education looks at why we teach computing and proposes four traditions for computing education at the school level : algorithmic, scientific, societal and design-making. Read moreL computingeducationresearch.org/blog-why-tea...
Why teach computing in school: new paper published! - Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre
This week, we've published a paper called 'What We Talk About When We Talk About K-12 Computing Education’ that looks at why we teach computing in school. Find out more about the different views on th...
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GenAI as automobile for the mind, and exercise as the antidote: A metaphor for predicting GenAI’s impact computinged.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/g...
GenAI as automobile for the mind, and exercise as the antidote: A metaphor for predicting GenAI’s impact
Some of you may remember the Apple ads that emphasized the computer as a “bicycle for the mind.” (From GenAI is not like a bicycle for the mind. Instead, it’s more like an automobile. I’m finding t…
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Personally Meaningful Data to Motivate Learning in Data Science and AI computinged.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/p...
Personally Meaningful Data to Motivate Learning in Data Science and AI
I have written several blog posts about the different ways to implement Media Computation in introductory programming courses. We built JES at Georgia Tech in 2002 and the final release was in 2020…
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Love this framing: Does “CS for all” imply that everybody ought to change to accommodate CS, or that CS ought to change to accommodate everybody? journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Defining Learner-Centered Design of Computing Education: What I did on my sabbatical computinged.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/d...
Defining Learner-Centered Design of Computing Education: What I did on my sabbatical
My planned activity during my sabbatical was to revise my 2015 book “Learner-Centered Design of Computing Education.” One of the fixes I wanted to make was a better definition of what “learner-cent…
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A New Zealand Perspective on the Challenges of Computing Education: What I did on my sabbatical computinged.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/a...
A New Zealand Perspective on the Challenges of Computing Education: What I did on my sabbatical
During our sabbatical, Barb and I spent a week in Auckland. We gave talks at the Auckland University of Technology and University of Auckland. Alison Clear (past Chair of the SIGCSE Board) and Tony…
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Great piece by university computer science teacher @markguzdial.bsky.social (hope I've got the right handle for Mark.....) computinged.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/l...
Learning to teach better by observation: What I did on my sabbatical
“You can observe a lot by just watching.” – Yogi Berra I had a couple of amazing experiences that made me think about how little we see each other teach and how much can be gained…
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ICE agents are executing US citizens with no just cause.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 6mo agoFederal agents shot and killed a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident on Saturday, the city’s police chief said. The shooting prompted clashes between law enforcement and protesters, as Minnesota officials renewed demands that the Trump administration end its immigration crackdown. trib.al/u8ESi4Q
Look, Ma: The latest issue of @acm.org INROADS Magazine features an interview with me. It’s open-access, so you can read up on my incoherent blabberings and old-dude anecdotes about block based programming & friends. dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Over the years I've been asked many times for advice on pedagogy, what to read to learn more, etc. I've finally put together a bunch of materials into one blog post: Key Advice • Readings • Neuromyths • For Computer Scientists • Classroom Tips. Enjoy! parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/ped...
Pedagogy Recommendations
Parenthetically Speaking: Articles by Shriram Krishnamurthi
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Dr. Tamara Nelson-Fromm defends her dissertation: What Debugging Looks like in Alternative Endpoints @tamaraniac.bsky.social computinged.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/d...
Dr. Tamara Nelson-Fromm defends her dissertation: What Debugging Looks like in Alternative Endpoints
In May, Tamara Nelson-Fromm defended her dissertation “A Qualitative Exploration of Programming Instruction for Alternative Endpoints in Post-Secondary Computing Education.” I’ve talked about Tamar…
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Creating a measure of Critical Reflection and Agency in Computing - work by Aadarsh Padiyath @the-ideal-one.bsky.social. computinged.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/c...
Creating a measure of Critical Reflection and Agency in Computing
I stopped blogging while I was on sabbatical because I had to focus on finishing the second edition of Learner-Centered Design of Computing Education. And then we came back from sabbatical. I’d hea…
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Preprint w/ (rapid) analysis of Grokipedia, showing it to be “highly derivative of Wikipedia”, but differing, often on controversial topics, in that Grokipedia includes content/cites from low quality (hyper partisan & conspiracy laden) sources like Stormfront & Infowars. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.09685
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Totally agree! I’ve learned so much from this talk. He actually referred to it in the SnapCon 2025 keynote youtu.be/U9W04TEMBUk?... when he pointed to the perceptron sprite code and said something like “that’s for another talk”. And a month later that talk showed up.
What's new in Snap! 11 - Data - Extensions - Neural Networks
YouTube video by Jens Mönig
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Astonishing talk by @jmoenig.bsky.social. From teaching linear algebra using powerful examples in Snap!, then replicates (working code!) the history of perceptrons (from Rosenblatt to Rummerlhart), then creates a NN to recognize musical instruments. SO recommended! www.youtube.com/live/_JSnHmG...
🔵 Bottom Line - Teaching Neural Networks with Snap!
YouTube video by SAP Developers
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So the ceasefire in Gaza isn't real, people are being kidnapped by ICE all over this country, the government is shut down, and millions of people are about to lose SNAP and healthcare and all of these EXACT SAME THINGS would be happening if the Black lady won in November??? Got it.
Computing has always been a seesawing discipline. We had the AI winters of the 1970s and the 1990s, and we had the dotcom crash and the ensuing “Image Crisis.” It seems another crisis is upon us. Will we ever learn? It is time for some serious thinking! cacm.acm.org/opinion/comp...
Computing Is Indeed a Discipline in Crisis – Communications of the ACM
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