ED44B:
Developing Computational Thinking Skills with MATLAB eLightning


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Session ID#: 48346

Session Description:
This session brings Geoscience instructors together in one place to share our stories of success and failure. Are you working to develop your student’s computational thinking skills and abilities? Is your department working to improve the quantitative skills of your students through coding? Do you use MATLAB in your course? If you answered yes to any of these, please join us in this education-focused session. We want to hear from you. What is working? What did not work? What would make teaching computational thinking with MATLAB easier? Do you have innovative new strategies you want to share? This session will provide a forum for the cross pollination of ideas related to teaching undergraduates and graduates the computational skills they need to be competitive in today’s technology-driven workforce. Even if you are not using MATLAB, please join us if you have experiences to share about teaching computational thinking.
Primary Convener:  Dylan Mikesell, Boise State University, Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States; Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States
Conveners:  Carl-Georg Bank, University of Toronto, Department of Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada, Jacqueline Caplan-Auerbach, Western Washington University, Geology, Bellingham, WA, United States and Andrew M Fischer, University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Dylan Mikesell, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States; Boise State University, Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States
Chairs:  Dylan Mikesell, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States; Boise State University, Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States and Carl-Georg Bank, University of Toronto, Department of Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada
OSPA Liaison:  Jacqueline Caplan-Auerbach, Western Washington University, Geology, Bellingham, WA, United States
Index Terms:

0820 Curriculum and laboratory design [EDUCATION]
0825 Teaching methods [EDUCATION]
0845 Instructional tools [EDUCATION]
0850 Geoscience education research [EDUCATION]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Linking Environmental Science Field Methods to Interpretable Results through MATLAB-Based Analysis (417049)
Alice C Bradley, Williams College, Geoscience Department, Williamstown, MA, United States
Developing an Introductory Data Analysis Class Using MATLAB at the Undergraduate Sophomore Level to Support Programming Skills in Higher Level Courses (400955)
Christopher Harig, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States and Luke McGuire, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, United States
Reducing barriers to entry: Using MATLAB's LiveScripts to teach computing to Geoscience undergraduates (453008)
Dylan Mikesell1, Karen M Viskupic2, V. Dorsey Wanless1 and Mark David Schmitz3, (1)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, United States, (2)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (3)Boise State University, Department of Geoscience, Boise, United States
Teaching environmental data analysis fundamentals in Matlab through a summer bridge program (461544)
Bernice Reya Rosenzweig, CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States
Teaching with Numerical Models in the Earth Surface Processes (365139)
Irina Overeem1, Mark Piper2, Prof. Albert Kettner2, Eric Hutton3 and Dr. Courtney Kay Harris, Ph.D.4, (1)University of Colorado, Department of Geological Sciences and Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System, Boulder, United States, (4)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary, Gloucester Point, United States
MELTS for MATLAB: A new Educational and Research Tool for Computational Thermodynamics (465859)
Paula M Antoshechkina, California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States and Mark S Ghiorso, OFM Research, Seattle, United States
A Peer-Contributed and Peer-Reviewed Collection of MATLAB Based Teaching Activities for Educators in the Geosciences and Allied Fields (447367)
Mitchell Bender-Awalt1, Daniel Wesley Burleson2, Lisa Kempler3, Cathryn Allen Manduca4 and Sean Fox1, (1)Carleton College, Northfield, MN, United States, (2)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (3)MathWorks, Inc., Natick, MA, United States, (4)Carleton College, SERC, Northfield, MN, United States
Tools and Resources for Educators: Teaching Quantitative Thinking in Geoscience with MATLAB (363157)
Lisa Kempler, MathWorks, Inc., Natick, MA, United States, Cathryn Allen Manduca, Carleton College, SERC, Northfield, MN, United States and Mitchell Bender-Awalt, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, United States

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