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Just Click Here

• ..and download the latest stable (non-beta)
  version based on your OS (pre-OSX, be sure to
  download 1.1.4!), save to your computer, unzip
  the file to "C\Program Files\Foo\Bar", and be
  sure to edit your path!
• Skylight Supper Series January 15, 2008
• Joanne Nakonechny and Steve Wolfman
• Project funded by UBC Institute for the
  Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

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Changing Descriptions of Programming
(ordered by statistical significance)
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Changing Descriptions of Programming(statisticall
y significant at p gt 0.95)
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What about non-persisters?
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Changing Descriptions of Programming (Women)
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Changing Descriptions of Programming(women,
statistically significant at p gt 0.95)
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Major/Minor Plans Over TimeFrustrated vs. Not
frustrated
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Why Are Students Frustrated?

• Quantitative data yields little evidence.
• Qualitative data suggests two possibilities
• Cause disciplinary teaching assumptions
• Missing solution peer support

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Cause Disciplinary Teaching Assumptions

• Students can install the applications they need
  and work from home. Otherwise, they can always
  work from the lab.

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Cause Disciplinary Assumptions

• Students can install the applications they need
  and work from home. Otherwise, they can always
  work from the lab.
• 23 separate students (of 400 in the class) post
  needing help with path problems in the two week
  span from September 15-September 30, 2005.
• These boil down to roughly 3-5 distinct problems,
  each of which is "resolved" multiple times, most
  on the newsgroup as well as in class and on the
  course website.

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Cause Disciplinary Assumptions

• Students can install the applications they need
  and work from home. Otherwise, they can always
  work from the lab.
• From a student
• Error package courses.ubc.cpsc111.google does
  not exist
• i'm either a dummy or maybe it's cuz i'm using
  dr. java but i didn't think that would be a
  problem.
• either way HELP pls

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Cause Disciplinary Assumptions

• Students can install the applications they need
  and work from home. Otherwise, they can always
  work from the lab.
• From a TA
• In addition to the bazillion or so emails that
  I've gotten about this problem, I've noticed
  several threads in here as well. Many of you have
  installed the Java 1.5 SDK, but when you
  subsequently try to run 'javac' at the prompt,
  the program can't be found in your path.

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Other Possible Disciplinary Teaching Assumptions

• Students can or can figure out how to
• print
• hand in assignments electronically
• check that handins have proceeded correctly
• zip files
• download and run applications
• download and view PDF files
• make text files?

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Cross-Disciplinary Teaching Assumptions?

• Students these days are tech savvy?
• most people believe that the Net Generation is
  hard-wired for technology  that they understand
  the latest technology intuitively, and that they
  are enthusiastic users of it. But the study at
  Rochester paints a different picture.
• "There is not a big technophile-technophobe
  division" between students and faculty members,
  Ms. Foster says. "There are still significant
  numbers of students who are completely inept with
  technology."
• "The literature will say that Net Generation
  students are multitaskers, and that they always
  want to be online," Ms. Gibbons adds. "But what
  we were seeing from some of our students is that
  they come to the library to unplug, to get
  offline. They still need time for concentration
  and to focus intensively on something."
• An Anthropologist in the Library
• Scott Carlson
• Chronicle of Higher Ed
• August 17, 2007

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Missing Solution peer support
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Missing Solution peer support

• Possible approach pair programming
• Two people work together start-to-finish on a
  problem, trading off driving and reviewing.
• The best thing about pair programming for me is
  the continuous discussion gave me training in
  formulating the thoughts I have about design and
  programming, thereby helping me reflect over
  them, which has made me a better
  designer/programmer.
• Subject quote from All I Really Need
  to Know, Williams and Kessler

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Your Slides Technology across Disciplines

• Updating software to read slides
• Assumption that they want to be there (in class)
  in the first place
• No one within their discipline is the best person
  to point out assumptions within your discipline

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Your Slides Technology across Disciplines

• Comfort with technology use
• Students know more than faculty about technology
• Computers are cool enough to make them worth
  learning to use
• Perhaps the coolness wave has passed for
  technology?

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Your Slides 1st Year Students, Communication

• Communicate ideas effectively in writing
• Read at an adequate level
• Follow basic instructions
• Reading and understanding large passages of text
• Motivation to read text
• Perhaps a general assumption on facultys part of
  a like mindset??

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Your Slides 1st Year Students

• Students know how to study
• Know how to read the text effectively
• Know how to prepare for the exam effectively
• Communication
• Writing a sentence
• What plagiarism means
• What a URL is
• How to use e-mail (effectively)
• Access items on the web
• Variation in populations

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Your Slides Physics

• Graphs and their interpretation
• Basic algebra skills

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