Tugce Aldemir

A proud academic mama moment: My student, Vivek Sabanwar, got accepted to 𝐈𝐂𝐄𝐑 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 Doctoral Consortium in Charlottesville, VA!

This paper is from a project led by Dr. Jewoong Moon and his team. We (with Dr. Ali Biçer and my two awesomest students: Vivek Sabanwar and Carlos Manrique) collaborated with them on this paper.

Trophies for the amazing students who participated in our agriculture sustainability curriculum unit are ready. We are super excited to hear more about their data-driven solutions for sustainable agriculture.

A quick question. How do you all keep track of special issue calls? Thank you!

My students (no CS background) designed AI-integrated lessons and now teaching in the class. Today, a group did an activity where their students would read and acknowledge a form of responsible use of AI, then would use a peer-tutor for math activities. I am super proud of them.

I think I am going to cry. My students, who were terrified of 3D design and coding greatly, have just designed and coded their first game!! I love these kids!

I am super excited! Our team (with Dr. Ali Biçer, Dr. Donggil Song, and Dr. Lee Pinnell) received another internal grant for our project: Artificial Intelligence Mentorship for Rural Education (AIM4Rural). The grant: 2025 EMERGE Grant Program, evaluated by an external team and the award is $49,376.

It is annual evaluation time. Guess it’s also time for my yearly identity crisis. 😅

We (with Dr. Donggil Song, Dr. Ali Biçer and Dr. Lee Pinnell) received an internal grant ($30,000) for our project 'AI-Enhanced Computational Thinking and Agricultural Science in Rural Schools' We are working with a wonderful Agriculture teacher and I am super excited to scale up this pilot work!

Sounds great. Will do. Than you!

Thank you so much! It would be great to chat about it if you have time anytime soon :) we are currently collection some discussion data from the class but it is super hard to distinguish the group discussions from the background noise, which makes the majority of our data quite useless :(

Anybody collecting audio recordings of group discussions in classroom? I am curious how you make sure you are capturing good audio from the group discussions with the lots of background noise? Any suggestions? Thanks! #ISLSfolks

I got my first 'rate my professor' feedback. How sweet this feedback is: "Prof Aldemir is very genuine and kind and works around all of her students concerns and stresses... She is so funny and just wants to make sure everyone is okay and is enjoying the assignments she has given." 🥰

Anyone else feeling the end-of-semester hustle? Hang in there, everyone! We’re almost at the finish line!

My students did their lesson demonstration today. They wonderfully rapped about math and subtraction 😁 so proud of them!

I heard that it is super famous in Turkey. How does it taste?

Using generative ai as a simulation to support higher-order thinking - International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning In this paper, and as a tribute to our friend and collaborator Barbara White, we explore how Generative AI (GenAI) technology can create stimulating new learning environments that support complex sens...

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I'll take all the luck I can get—fingers crossed for my sanity too! 😅

I didn't spend this much time on my dissertation as I've spent working on this manuscript. I think it is cursed, and highly possible that it will bring zombie apocalypse or something if published somehow 😁😁

From ISLS 2024 Early Career Workshop - One of the most amazing experiences for me as a scholar. I interacted with and became friends with amazing emerging stars in the field and learned from the superstars. I consider myself super lucky to be part of this cohort!

When I was a student, I used to dream about taking exams unprepared. Since I became a faculty, I dream about going to class unprepared. Regardless of the role shift in my dreams, anxious student is always an anxious student 😁

A friend of mine rescued a pug. Male. Does anybody want to adopt a pug? We already have two and can't take one more :(

Today our puppy had eye surgery. Suddenly our older dog became super aggressive towards him. Any recommendations? They are both pugs.

Today, I met the wonderful teacher I will be collaborating with for a project, and I spilled a half glass of coffee latte on her. Let's talk about how to establish a sustainable research-practice partnership!

Done! :)

Thank you :)

Thank you! :)

Thank you! It was great to meet you in person, Charles!

Finally, I am on bluesky 😁