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Graduate Consortium

Broadening the Audience for Computational Thinking

Sunday, September 23, 2007

9.00-10.30 Session A
Introductory Remarks
Fostering Young People's Computational Thinking Skills in the STAGE Project
Judith Good, University of Sussex
A Lightweight Model for End Users’ Data: Progress and Future Work
Christopher Scaffidi, Carnegie Mellon University
Lowering Barriers to Interaction: Programming without Code
Catharine Brand, University of Colorado, Boulder
Panel and audience discussion
10.30-11.00 Break
11.00-12.30 Session B
Community-Based Scaffolding to Promote End-User Learning
Brian Dorn, Georgia Institute of Technology
Factors Affecting End Users’ Intrinsic Motivation to Use Software
Thippaya Chintakovid, Drexel University
Marmite: Towards End-User Programming for the Web
Jeffrey Wong, Carnegie Mellon University
Panel and audience discussion
12.30-1.30 Lunch Break
1.30-3:00 Session C
A Generic Visual Critic Authoring Tool
Norhayati Mohd Ali, University of Auckland
Helping Teachers Automate Student Sketch Assessment
Sandra B. Fan, University of Washington
Using Visual Tools to Close the Home Networking Digital Divide
Erika Shehan Poole, Georgia Institute of Technology
Panel and audience discussion
3.00-3:30 Break
3.30-5:00 Session D
Finding Gender Differences in End-User Debugging: A Data Mining Approach
Valentina Grigoreanu, Oregon State University
Girls Teaching Girls: Free-Choice Collaborative Learning Through Social Computing
Matthew R. Peters, Pennsylvania State University
From Functional to Fun: End User Development for Teenagers
Sarita Yardi, Georgia Institute of Technology
Panel and audience discussion