{"65382":{"#nid":"65382","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Guzdial, Ericson Share Prestigious Computing Education Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EATLANTA \u2013 April 6, 2010 \u2013 Mark Guzdial and Barbara Ericson, the husband-and-wife pair who together are reinvigorating computing education for a generation of Georgia students, have received the Association for Computing Machinery\u2019s 2011 Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, the organization announced today.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGuzdial, professor in the School of Interactive Computing, and Ericson, director of CS outreach in the College of Computing, are the driving forces behind \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gacomputes.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022\u003EGeorgia Computes!\u003C\/a\u003E, a nationally recognized program intended to enhance computing instruction throughout Georgia\u2019s primary and secondary schools. The program is one of the National Science Foundation\u2019s \u201cBroadening Participation in Computing\u201d alliances and has been copied by other states looking to make advances in computer science education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI am thrilled for the recognition from the ACM for the work that my partner and wife, Barbara Ericson, and I have doing for the last decade. We are honored to be in the set of past Karlstrom Award winners,\u201d Guzdial said of the honor, which is the first Karlstrom Award ACM has given to a pair rather than a single individual. \u201cOur work has been about making computing more accessible to a broader audience, by teaching computing in terms of how people want to use computing--a \u2018context\u2019 for using computing.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201c\u2019Media computation\u2019 is about teaching computer science as a tool to support expression and communication, and we\u0027ve shown that this approach attracts students to computer science,\u201d Ericson added. \u201cIn particular, we were excited to see that women and students from under-represented minority groups really liked these ideas, so media computation became a starting point for our efforts to broaden participation in computing across the state.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Computes! operates through a combination of teacher workshops, student computing camps and curricular support and consultation. How has the program helped its state? Georgia now has the highest percentage in the Southeast of high schools offering Advanced Placement Computer Science, and more than a third of all public high schools have sent at least one teacher to attend a Georgia Computes! workshop. Those high schools in turn generate about 65 percent of introductory CS students in Georgia colleges and universities who hail from the state, as well as a significant majority of female and under-represented minority CS1 students. Nearly 1,900 students have attended a computing camp or workshop at Georgia Tech organized by Ericson and Guzdial.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe see this award from ACM as validating Georgia Tech\u0027s goal of making computing accessible,\u201d Guzdial said. \u201cBarb and I are looking forward to continuing to make computer science education accessible to high school teachers and professionals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cComputing,\u201d he said, \u201cis a whole new literacy that is powerful for students of all ages.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGuzdial received his Ph.D. in education and computer science (a joint degree) in 1993 from the University of Michigan, where he developed Emile, an environment for high school science learners programming multimedia demonstrations and physics simulations. He was the original developer of the CoWeb (or Swiki), which is now one of the most widely used wiki engines in universities around the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEricson earned her M.S. in computer science in 1986 from the University of Michigan, three years after earning her B.S. from Wayne State University. Prior to joining Georgia Tech in 1998, she worked as a software engineer for NCR, Clark Atlanta University, the Institute of Paper Science \u0026amp; Technology, and General Motors Research Labs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/awards.acm.org\/karlstrom\/\u0022 target=\u0022_self\u0022\u003EKarlstrom Award\u003C\/a\u003E is presented annually by the ACM (which also bestows the Turing Award, the world\u2019s highest honor in computer science) to an educator \u201crecognized for advancing new teaching methodologies, or effecting new curriculum development or expansion in computer science and engineering, or making a significant contribution to the educational mission of the ACM.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E###\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Georgia Tech College of Computing\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech College of Computing is a national leader in the creation of real-world computing breakthroughs that drive social and scientific progress. With its graduate program ranked 10th nationally by U.S. News and World Report, the College\u2019s unconventional approach to education is defining the new face of computing by expanding the horizons of traditional computer science students through interdisciplinary collaboration and a focus on human centered solutions. For more information about the Georgia Tech College of Computing, its academic divisions and research centers, please visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EContact\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBrendan Streich\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDirector of Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Computing at Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:bstreich@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ebstreich@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-313-5944\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Husband-and-wife pair recognized with ACM Karlstrom Award for CS education efforts through Georgia Computes!"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMark Guzdial and Barbara Ericson, the \nhusband-and-wife pair who together are reinvigorating computing \neducation for a generation of Georgia students, have received the \nACM\u2019s 2011 Karlstrom Outstanding\n Educator Award, the organization announced today. \u003Cem\u003ESource: Office of Communications\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Husband and wife Mark Guzdial and Barbara Ericson share ACM\u0027s 2011 Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award."}],"uid":"27174","created_gmt":"2011-04-05 15:15:13","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:30","author":"Mike Terrazas","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-04-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-04-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"65383":{"id":"65383","type":"image","title":"Mark Guzdial \u0026 Barb Ericson","body":null,"created":"1449176831","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:07:11","changed":"1475894577","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:57","alt":"Mark Guzdial \u0026 Barb Ericson","file":{"fid":"192229","name":"DSC_0156.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DSC_0156_0.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DSC_0156_0.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3160201,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/DSC_0156_0.JPG?itok=hat77An-"}}},"media_ids":["65383"],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"10665","name":"barbara ericson"},{"id":"12673","name":"CS education"},{"id":"12410","name":"Institute for Computing Education"},{"id":"10469","name":"Mark Guzdial"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBrendan Streich\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bstreich@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}