Two courses for fall 2024
August 24, 2024
Chris introduces two courses offered in fall 2024: A special offering of LAI 605 Critical Computational Literacies, and LAI 676 The Pedagogy of Proramming. Please join!
The Computational Literacies Lab studies how students, teachers, and school communities learn with and about computers. We are focused on four big questions:
- What does it mean to learn computer science?
- How can new computational media unlock new forms of learning?
- How can we prepare teachers to effectively and equitably teach K12 computer science?
- What kinds of social and technical infrastructure are needed to help school communities implement high-quality computer science which fits their cultures and priorities?
Get involved. Attend our weekly open lab meetings, join the email list, or take a course in the lab. Interested faculty, students, and the broader university community are warmly invited to contact Dr. Proctor.
A qualitative coding tool to support CT
May 8, 2024
Please join us from 3-4pm for an online talk hosted by UB's Digital Scholarship Studio Network, titled qc: A qualitative coding tool designed to support computational thinking,
LLMs in Education Expo
May 7, 2024
Please join us from 4:30-6:00pm in the lobby of Baldy Hall for a presentation of course final projects in LAI 686: Large Language Models in Education. Explore live demos of educational AI applications, and discuss the results and theoretical implications of each group's research. Refreshments will be served.
A Powerful Partnership: Technology and Language Instruction
April 23, 2024
Chris Proctor and Antero Garcia gave a NCTE Webinar on interactive storytelling and the role of literacy education in the digital world.
CMLC 3: Joan Nobile
March 29, 2023
Glitch is a broken system. A workshop on Glitch Art with Joan Nobile of UB's Department of Media Study.
CMLC 2: Famous Clark
November 15, 2022
A workshop on 3D game design, interactivity, and fairy tales with Famous Clark of UB's Department of Media Study.
Introducing the Computational Media Literacies Collaborative
October 14, 2022
We are happy to introduce the first event put on by a new group at UB, the Computational Media Literacies Collaboratory!
Defining and Designing CS featured on CS K-8 Podcast
October 3, 2022
Chris was honored to have another article featured on Jared O'Leary's CS K-8 Podcast.
NSF grant to study community-based design of K12 CS
September 1, 2022
Dr. Chris Proctor was awarded nearly $300,000 to form a research-practice partnership with Lockport City School District exploring two long-standing challenges in scaling up access to high-quality secondary computer science (CS): the lack of high school CS course offerings and the lack of qualified CS teachers. This project will explore the hypothesis that there are benefits to designing solutions for both problems at the same time, based on the key insight that both problems depend on building a broadly-shared vision of how and why computer science will become part of the school. Follow this project here.
CSCL Best Paper Nomination
June 10, 2022
The first paper from the Minecraft Utopia project, by Dr. Chris Proctor and Dr. Dalia Antonia Caraballo Muller, received a Best Paper nomination at the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Conference.
Computational Literacies featured on CS K-8 Podcast
December 15, 2021
On the CS K-8 Podcast Jared O'Leary covered our new article in Educational Researcher, "A Revaluation of Computational Thinking in K-12 Education: Moving Toward Computational Literacies."
New Spring 2022 course
December 14, 2021
Please join me for the first offering of a new course, LAI 686 Critical Computational Literacies.
Spring 2021 Design Studio enrollment open
November 16, 2020
Enrollment is now open for a new Spring 2021 course, LAI 686 Critical Computational Literacies Design Studio.
Hi, UB!
September 1, 2020
Dr. Chris Proctor joined the University at Buffalo's Department of Learning and Instruction in fall 2020 as an assistant professor of Learning Sciences. Read more about Chris's research at chrisproctor.net.