Mark J. Guzdial

I started teaching computing in February 1980. I was 17 in my senior year of high school, and I taught "Bits, Bytes, and Basic" in a community education class. I taught through my undergrad years--community education, afterschool classes, GED classes, and even community college in 1984. I read "Personal Dynamic Media" by Adele Goldberg and Alan Kay while on an internship at Bell Labs in 1982. Adele and Alan's thoughts and words set me on the road to my PhD in Education and Computer Science at the University of Michigan in 1993. I've been at Georgia Tech since then, where I focus on using lessons from learning sciences and educational technology for teaching about computing.

Here's the more formal blurb: Mark Guzdial is a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has a joint PhD in Education and Computer Science from the University of Michigan. He is a learning scientist who focuses on computing education research. He invented “Media Computation” and has published several books on the use of media as a context for learning computing. Preparing more high school computing teachers is critical to improve access to computing education, so he co-leads an effort to develop electronic books to support teacher learning about computing ([http://home.cc.gatech.edu/csl/CSLearning4U]). He is one of the leads on the NSF-funded Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP) alliance to help US states improve and broaden participation in computing education ([http://ecepalliance.org]). He serves on the ACM's Education Council, and is on the editorial boards of the "Journal of the Learning Sciences," "ACM Transactions on Computing Education," and "Communications of the ACM." With his wife and colleague, Barbara Ericson, he received the 2010 ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator award.  He was also the recipient of the 2012 IEEE Computer Society Undergraduate Teaching Award, and is an ACM Distinguished Educator and a Fellow of the ACM.

Webpage: [http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~mark.guzdial]

Blog: [http://computinged.wordpress.com]