Notes on First-Year Review

Notes on First-Year Review Looking at coursework      Dan: Take more courses about humans. They’re all intro courses. Dig into Anthro. Psych.       Roy: For jobs, MSCS makes a difference.       Dan: Don’t just take what you’re good at.       Brigid: The methods are important too. What about experimental design?      Roy: Learning scientists seem to have one or more areas of strength. Then the human side is       Dan: Take Hazel Marcus. Psych.       Roy: Identity.       Dan: What about teaching CS?       Brigid: Take a class from Damon: Sense of Purpose.      Roy: Check out Angela Booker’s dissertation      Brigid: Check out Kim Austin’s dissertation

     Dan: Be a little more country lawyer, less prophet. Stay away from the manifesto       Roy: Look in to geography // Clark University.       Dan: Getting published isn’t the goal. The goal is to get someone to read it. 

Looking at First-Year project      Roy: Roger Hall. Representation> Was it cheating?       Dan: Lee Martin medical cases, diagnosis           Asked grad students why you did that. “I don’t know.”       Roy: Simulated effort in cognitive psychology      Brigid: How social was all this?       Roy: George Polya. How to think about computational reasoning, building programs. Psychology of problem-solving.       Roy: How to think about 

     Chris: Should I teach?       Brigid: Meet Shuchi Grover. 

     Brigid:       Find a balance between depth and breadth      Dan: Follow ideas. One of them with hit.       Brigid: Talk to Jill Denner and Linda Werner. FARIE assessment, pair programming.       Dan: Make one or two graphs, ask “What do you make of this?"      Roy: “Data objects to think with” The researcher marshmallow.       Katie’s paper on PRL

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