Michelle

#CSTA2025Rocks with 20 university-based teams dedicated to preparing K-12 CS teachers with the PrepareCS program, supported by Google. www.cehd.umn.edu/northern-lig...

So glad @kairyssdal.bsky.social explained why they didn’t cover the White House chaos on @marketplace.org … and so glad they didn’t. My blood pressure and nervous system appreciate it.

It important to know the names of women researchers who've been studying, speaking & writing about bias and AI.

Dr Timnit Gebru,
Dr Rumman Chowdhury, Dr Safiya Noble,
Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan,
Dr Buolamwini

And many many more within/outside academia.

Free link: archive.ph/2023.11.22-1...
👑👑👑

Academia in a nutshell: On back-to-back nights I found out I'm being nominated for a leadership position and that I didn't get a major grant. The upside is I'll have time for the leadership position?

It is SO COLD

I have no idea what I’d have done without you, but for sure it would have been more boring!

I’m reworking the rejected SIGCSE offering for ISLS. So, hopefully soon!!

I wish there was a laugh reaction. (Or that I knew where it is, if there is one.)

The thing that horrifies me is that while we're going to get rid of something that does not harm and has some benefit, we are doing NOTHING to remove LEAD from water and soil. Only being mad that lead-poisoned children don't thrive.

What should my theoretical framework be? Come Tell Me Things at today's poster session #ISLS2024

Such an awesome session

Compelling!

Our modern world is very complicated, and nuanced. Yet people keep acting like it isn't. Which is probably easier to deal with than everyone going down every rabbit hole.

A second writer I follow is leaving substack. I suspect substack might not be Not Evil. But I'll probably keep following the people I follow there, exacerbating the problem through network effects.

It's been so long since I've posted, I don't remember how to post and had to cast about for a long time before I noticed the blue box at the bottom of the screen.

I was unimpressed that the presentation wildly failed the Bechdel test

"I was told that in a flat room, you should never put anything important on the bottom 1/3 of slides in case people can't see it, so I decided to put nothing important on any of my slides." - Michael Kölling, WiPSCE keynote