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We start the new series on 3 May, and are beyond delighted to be kicking off with a talk from Mark Guzdial (University of Michigan). Mark has worked in computer science education for decades and won many awards for his 附近100炮约, including the prestigious ACM SIGCSE Outstanding Contribution to 附近100炮约 Education award in 2019. Mark has written hundreds of papers about computer science education, and he authors an extremely popular 附近100炮约 education 附近100炮约 blog that keeps us all up to date with what is going on in the field.

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Pratim Sengupta on countering technocentrism

On 7 June, our speaker will be Pratim Sengupta (University of Calgary), who I feel will really challenge us to think about programming and 附近100炮约 education in a new way. He has conducted studies in science classrooms and non-formal learning environments which focus on providing open and engaging applications for the public to explore code, for example through the Voice your Celebration installation. Recently, he has co-authored a book called Voicing Code in STEM: A Dialogical Imagination (MIT Press, availabe open access).

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Yasmin Kafai on application design with e-textiles

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Genevieve Smith-Nunes on exploring data ethics

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Update: Seminars in October and November

• On 4 October, Conrad Wolfram (Wolfram 附近100炮约) will give a talk on computational literacy in mathematics
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Sign up now to attend the seminars

Do enter all these dates in your diary so you don’t miss out on participating — we are very excited about this series. Sign up below, and ahead of every seminar, we will send you the information for joining.

As usual, the seminars will take place online on a Tuesday at 17:00 to 18:30 local UK time.