The CS-Ed Podcast

07/04/2025

Blast from the past! Have you had to deal with academic misconduct lately? We have an episode where we discuss with our guests their context, its impact, educating students, and how our thinking has changed.

What is academic misconduct and it's impact?

31/03/2025

Our host, recently posted a blog post about her noticing one of her expert blind spots.

Helping Students Connect the Dots: The Power of a Class Plan Slide

While going through my mid-semester survey this semester, I discovered an expert blind spot in myself. One variation of an expert blind…

24/03/2025

Here is a nice and quick podcast episode on listening skills from Cult of Pedagogy's podcast.

These techniques are easy to learn and will make all the people in your life feel seen, heard, and understood.

17/03/2025

Here's a podcast episode about a book on what AI can and can't do and how to tell the difference. We especially appreciated the point that AI is a very broad term (it's like only having the vehicle instead of bikes, cars, etc.), and we need to break down and be more precise about what kind of "AI" we are talking about.

Podcast Episode · The Next Big Idea Daily · 03/17/2025 · 15m

10/03/2025

Here’s a useful framework to help think about how to use AI in student learning.

In my latest article and podcast, I share a continuum for how we can think about AI integration in our educational institutions. Listen to the Podcast If you enjoy this blog but you’d like to listen to it on the go, just click on the...

03/03/2025

Dr. Valerie Taylor from Argonne National Laboratory joins us in this episode to talk about mentoring in academia. Mentoring, at its core, starts with asking questions and seeking advice, as opposed to finding a mentor. In this episode, we discuss the ins and outs of mentoring through Valerie’s many amazing stories from her career, from identifying what questions to ask and how to say no.

How mentoring starts with asking questions.

24/02/2025

Here's a super short podcast episode on why and how to give lots of formative assessments.

Sponsored by Explore Learning . Watch a video version of this tip on Instagram. One of the best-kept secrets in teaching is that frequent quizzing leads to better learning. I’m not talking about formative assessment here — this is quizzing as a learning strategy. A growing body of research is sh...

17/02/2025

Rather than add, let’s consider how to reduce by applying these ideas about student cognitive load.

When we make certain choices, often without even realizing it, we can turn a teaching moment from one that should be clear into one that's confusing.

10/02/2025

If you already know about Parson’s Problems, this episode is still worth a listen! We also talk about Barb’s use of them in her classroom and how she’s using to improve problems by adapting them to match the student’s approach and breaking them down into subgoals.

A way to scaffold reading to write code.

03/02/2025

Here’s a nice concrete example of how a 300-student probability and statistics course for CS does alternative grading in the Netherlands!

How we used competency-based grading for 300 computer science students at a Dutch university

27/01/2025

Here's a great podcast episode talking about classroom assessment techniques organized into different categories and with concrete examples.

Todd Zakrajsek shares about Classroom Assessment Techniques on episode 554 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

20/01/2025

To continue our series on GenAI posts, here’s a more practical, concrete one explaining how a math course is handling GenAI.

It's not ideal and I have a lot of questions.

13/01/2025

Here is a podcast episode on AI and cheating. We enjoyed it because it encouraged us to think about why students cheat, acknowledged that AI has changed things, and discussed potential ways to make things better.

In a new book, a long-time expert on academic integrity argues that understating why students cheat is key to making adjustments in teaching to prevent ...

06/01/2025

Dr. Luther Tychonievich from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign shares with us his multi-step Q&A process where he solicits questions from his students to get more diverse questions and strongly signals to them that he wants questions. Dr. Tychonievich goes into detail about how to shorten the exercise if you have less time, as well as considerations and ways to respond to the questions when an answer is not necessarily appropriate.

A way to get more questions from students.

16/12/2024

Our host wrote a blog post on her thoughts about generative AI and teaching. The focus is on the ideas/terms/theories that drove her thinking and what she is currently doing about it. Perhaps something useful to help structure your thinking!

Generative AI (GenAI) exploded into the academic teaching landscape in 2021, and we have been coping ever since. I’ve been quietly thinking…

02/12/2024

The beginning of December means many in academia are starting to plan for final exams. Do you have a sense of how long your exam is? Here's a blog post by our host on how to find out! Ask someone to time themselves as they take your exam, then multiply. Though, how much you multiply depends on the course and who tested the exam.

A blog on teaching computer science and being a professor by Prof. Kristin Stephens-Martinez at Duke University.

25/11/2024

This season has us thinking about gratitude and what we value, reminding us of this digital well-being workbook that we posted about before. It talks about aligning digital behavior with our values, which seems an excellent thing to think about this time of year. Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

18/11/2024

Here is a blog post by Grading for Growth on Robert Talbert’s four-level grading rubric, along with useful details on how to collapse it into three or two levels. It also has concrete examples!

As approaches to alternative grading evolve, so do the tools we use