Mark Guzdial

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Mark Guzdial
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Born Mark Joseph Guzdial
(1962-09-07) September 7, 1962 (age 62)
Detroit, MI, USA
Residence Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Citizenship United States
Nationality American
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Thesis Emile: Software-Realized Scaffolding for Science Learners Programming Multiple Media (1993)
Doctoral advisor Elliot Soloway[2]
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  • ACM Fellow (2014)
  • ACM Distinguished Lecturer
  • Vice-Chair of the ACM Education Board Council
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Mark Joseph Guzdial (born September 7, 1962) is a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology affiliated with the College of Computing and the GVU Center. He is best known for his research in the fields of computer science education and the learning sciences and internationally in the field of Information Technology. From 2001-2003, he was selected to be an ACM Distinguished Lecturer and in 2007 he was appointed Vice-Chair of the ACM Education Board Council. He was the original developer of the CoWeb (or Swiki), one of the earliest wiki engines, which was implemented in Squeak and has been in use at institutions of higher education since 1998.[4] He is the inventor[citation needed] of the Media Computation approach to learning introductory computing, which uses contextualized computing education to attract and retain students.[1][5][6][7][8][9]

Education

Mark Guzdial was born in Michigan and attended Wayne State University for his undergraduate studies, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science in 1984. He received a master's degree in 1986 in Computer Science and Engineering at Wayne State University. Guzdial went on to receive a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1993 in Computer Science and Education where he was advised by Elliot Soloway. His thesis created an environment for high school science learners to program multimedia demonstrations and physics simulations.[3] After graduating from the University of Michigan, Guzdial accepted a position as an assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing.

Research and Teaching

Guzdial currently directs the Contextualized Support for Learning Lab (CSL), a team of faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students who design and implement innovative technology for the goal of improving learning. Guzdial’s research projects include Media Computation, an approach that emphasizes context in computer science education, using programming languages, lectures examples, and programming assignments from those contexts that students recognize as being authentic and relevant for computing.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]

His Media Computation course has been taught at Georgia Tech since 2003 and has shown increases in computing across underrepresented groups, including women and minorities.[19][20] Guzdial’s Media Computation curriculum is being used at universities across the country. He received a grant from the National Science Foundation in 2006 to pursue his “Using Media Computation to Attract and Retain Students in Computing” curriculum.[21]

Guzdial is currently serving as Program Co-Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) 2008 Annual Symposium, the largest computing education conference in the world. Guzdial was director of the Director of Undergraduate Programs (including the BS in Computer Science, BS in Computational Media, and Minor in Computer Science) until 2007. He is Lead Principal Investigator on Georgia Computes, a National Science Foundation Broadening Participation in Computing alliance focused on increasing the number and diversity of computing students in the state of Georgia.[22] He has published dozens of scholarly articles in peer reviewed journals and has given invited presentations at academic conferences such as SIGCSE and ICER. He is a member of numerous academic journals and professional societies, including IEEE, ACM, and AERA.[23]

Awards

  • 2014. Fellow of ACM.
for contributions to computing education, and broadening participation.[24]
  • 2010. Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award
For their contributions to computing education, through the Media Computation (MediaComp) approach that they have created, supported, and disseminated, and its impact on broadening participation in computing.[25]

Selected works

  • 2006. Introduction to Computing and Programming with Java: A Multimedia Approach. (with Barbara Ericson)
  • 2004. Introduction to Computing and Programming in Python: A Multimedia Approach.
  • 2001. Squeak: Open Personal Computing and Multimedia. (with Kim Rose)
  • 2000. Squeak: Object-Oriented Design with Multimedia Applications.

Personal life

Guzdial was married to Barb Ericson in July 1985. They have three children, Matthew, Katherine, and Jennifer.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mark Guzdial's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
  2. ↑ Mark Guzdial at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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  7. ↑ Mark Guzdial from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library
  8. ↑ Mark Guzdial's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  9. ↑ Mark Guzdial's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
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  15. ↑ Introduction to Computing and Programming with Java: A Multimedia Approach with Barbara Ericson (2006)
  16. ↑ Introduction to Computing and Programming in Python: A Multimedia Approach (2004)
  17. ↑ Squeak: Open Personal Computing and Multimedia with Kim Rose (2001)
  18. ↑ Squeak: Object-Oriented Design with Multimedia Applications (2000)
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  20. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Archived February 11, 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  21. ↑ Media Computation To Attract & Retain Students — College of Computing Archived February 2, 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  22. ↑ Welcome to "Georgia Computes!" — Georgia Computes! Archived September 22, 2007 at the Wayback Machine
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  24. ↑ ACM Fellows 2014
  25. ↑ Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award 2010
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