Policy emphases on early childhood and elementary computerscience education have led to the development of many developmentally appropriate computerscience and robotics tools, pedagogies, and high-quality curricula....
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Policy emphases on early childhood and elementary computerscience education have led to the development of many developmentally appropriate computerscience and robotics tools, pedagogies, and high-quality curricula. One example is the integrated Coding as Another Language pedagogy for coding, literacy, and social and emotional learning. The pedagogy was initially developed for students in kindergarten and early elementary school and has not previously been aligned to prekindergarten learning frameworks or used in the prekindergarten setting. In this paper, we describe a pilot program if the CAL pedagogy could be successfully used for the prekindergarten setting. The study used a design-based method to adapt the Coding as Another Language curriculum for the prekindergarten setting and a mixed-methods protocol to evaluate the program at a preschool site serving children experiencing homelessness in classrooms that are part of the local school district's universal prekindergarten program. Students were assessed using the Coding Stages Assessment of coding knowledge and the TechCheck-PreK assessment of computational thinking. Teachers completed semi-structured interviews over the course of the project. Teachers reported overall positive experiences teaching the curriculum including for English language learners, although some reported challenges integrating the curricula in their bilingual classrooms. Children participating in the program significantly improved on their coding knowledge by 4.60 points on the Coding Stages Assessment, p < .0001. These findings suggest that the Coding as Another Language pedagogy can be successfully integrated with preschool learning frameworks and implemented in preschool classrooms.
Zero-shot event-relational reasoning is an important task in natural language processing, and existing methods jointly learn a variety of event-relational prefixes and inference-form prefixes to achieve such tasks. Ho...
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Tangible interfaces have become integral to human-computer interaction, especially in educational settings that offer engaging ways for learners to interact with digital technology. This paper explores the landscape o...
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Tangible interfaces have become integral to human-computer interaction, especially in educational settings that offer engaging ways for learners to interact with digital technology. This paper explores the landscape of tangible interfaces for computational tinkering-tools and interfaces that empower learners to engage with computational experiences in a playful and open-ended format. In this preliminary work for the Graduate Student Consortium, I examine a set of these projects through the lenses of context, tangibility, expressivity, and materiality, and seek to develop a rich classification and research goals from the insights. This paper also presents two of my projects in this space.
The provision of rebate to needy/underprivileged sections of society has been in practice since long in government organizations. The efficacy of such provisions lies in the fact that whether this rebate reaches peopl...
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Hypergraph Neural Networks (HGNNs) are increasingly utilized to analyze complex inter-entity relationships. Traditional HGNN systems, based on a hyperedge-centric dataflow model, independently process aggregation task...
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This review paper explores emerging threats to information privacy and security within the dynamic landscape of Online Social Networks (OSNs), which serve as repositories of vast amounts of user data. The rise in soci...
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With the increased reliance of enterprises on cloud storage solutions for data management, maintaining safe and efficient storage while emphasizing privacy protection is crucial. With an emphasis on user privacy, this...
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This paper addresses the problems of diagnosability verification and enforcement of discrete event systems modeled with unbounded Petri nets. Diagnosability in such systems is critical for ensuring reliability and mai...
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This paper addresses the problems of diagnosability verification and enforcement of discrete event systems modeled with unbounded Petri nets. Diagnosability in such systems is critical for ensuring reliability and maintaining operational integrity, yet current methods often struggle with the complexity introduced by unboundedness and potential deadlocks. Given an unbounded labeled Petri net that may reach deadlocks, a quiescent basis coverability graph is established to verify the diagnosability of the considered system. This procedure employs a deterministic finite state automaton, called an extended verifier, derived from the proposed quiescent basis coverability graph. It is shown that an unbounded Petri net is diagnosable if and only if the verifier does not contain a class of cycles, called repetitive $F$ -cycles. This result also provides necessary and sufficient conditions for diagnosability enforcement by developing an online supervisor. Further, the designed supervisor is maximally permissive and also circumvents a plant entering deadlocks by firing non-fault sequences. Examples are presented to demonstrate the proposed method. Note to Practitioners-Fault diagnosis and diagnosability enforcement are critical for the development and operation of highly automated systems covering computer-integrated production processes, intelligent traffic, computer and communication networks, smart gird, etc. This work touches upon this problem from the perspective of discrete event systems that are modeled with unbounded labeled Petri nets. The feasibility and applicability of the reported method stem from the usage of a structurally compact representation of a considered plant such that the computational cost of a real-world system is acceptable. The graphical representation of Petri nets as well as the proposed quiescent basis coverability graph make the method easy to use and manipulate. Moreover the sufficient and necessary conditions of diagnosability enforcement can
There is a growing interest in sustainable ecosystem development, which includes methods such as scientific modeling, environmental assessment, and development forecasting and planning. However, due to insufficient su...
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In today’s digital age, technology has advanced to the point where it is difficult to distinguish be-tween genuine and forged media content. It was intended to be used for entertainment, but it is now being used to d...
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