BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:icalendar-ruby
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
X-WR-CALNAME:NASC Colloquium: Computing Education in the Age of Generative 
 AI
X-WR-TIMEZONE:Eastern Time (US & Canada)
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260610T120914Z
UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_47161124994786
DTSTART:20241115T203000Z
DTEND:20241115T213000Z
DESCRIPTION:Introductory programming courses have long had a reputation for
  being difficult\, boring\, and time consuming.  Some people think that on
 ly certain types of people excel in programming.  However\, anyone can lea
 rn to program.  Dr. Ericson has been applying principles from educational 
 psychology to improve the teaching and learning of programming. Her focus 
 is on increasing the use of active and social learning in programming educ
 ation.  Specifically she has created free and interactive ebooks\, inquiry
 -based exercises for groups\, a free tool to support Peer Instruction\, an
 d new types of practice problems.  In Peer Instruction an instructor displ
 ays a hard multiple-choice question and students answer individually\, the
 n discuss the question with peers\, and then answer again.  The instructor
  then leads a discussion about the question.  Dr. Ericson is investigating
  how introductory programming should change in the age of generative AI.  
 This includes less emphasis on writing code and more emphasis on reading c
 ode\, reasoning about code\, testing code\, and fixing code.  The goal is 
 to make programming easy\, engaging\, and useful.\n\nReception to follow.
GEO:42.8179;-75.533116
LOCATION:Ho Science Center\, 101
SUMMARY:NASC Colloquium: Computing Education in the Age of Generative AI
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.colgate.edu/event/nasc-colloquium-computing-
 education-in-the-age-of-generative-ai
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR