LATICE 2018
Sixth International Conference on Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering
Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, April 20th - April 22nd, 2018
Schedule
All sessions will be held in located at Auckland University of Technology's City Campus located at 55 Wellesley Street, in the Sir Paul Reeves Building on level 9 in rooms WG901-902. Directions to the venue and a campus map can be found here
Friday, 20th April
| 08:00 | Registration | |
| Welcome | 09:00 | Welcome Conference Chairs: Anders Berglund & Tony Clear |
| Keynote Address | 09:30 | How do we help school teachers get engaged with a new computing curriculum? Tim Bell |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| Paper Session 1 | 11:00 | A 3-Tier Technology for STEM Education in New Zealand Primary Schools Farhad Mehdipour, Mohsen Pashna & Aniket Mahanti |
| 11:30 | Culturally Relevant Approach to Encourage School Children Learn Computer Science Concepts Anuroop Gaddam, Karsten Lundqvist and Hiria McRae | |
| 12:00 | The use of Different Kinds of Robots to Spark Student Interest in Learning Computational Thinking Wei-Yeh, Huang, Chiu-Fan Hu & Cheng-Chih, Wu | |
| Lunch | 12:30 | Lunch Break |
| Paper Session 2 | 14:00 | Development and Validation of Problem Solving Task based-Integrated STEM Norazla Mustafa, Zaleha Ismail, Zaidatun Tasir & Mohd Nihra Haruzuan Mohamad Said |
| 14:30 | HandsUp – An In-class Question Posing Tool Harry Jackson, Angad Nayyar, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly & Ewan Tempero | |
| 15:00 | Student Learning Processes for Mathematical Modelling – An Engineering Lecturer’s Viewpoint Kerri Spooner | |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break and Posters | |
| Paper Session 3 | 16:00 | Evaluation of the Implementation of a Timer in Gamified Programming Exercises Aaron Matenga, Tyne Crow, Michael Walmsley, Andrew Luxton-Reilly & Burkhard Wuensch |
| 16:30 | Invited Paper Fostering Co-Creation with Games Maya Pivec | |
| Finish | 17:00 | Free time |
| Dinner | 19:00 | Conference Dinner |
Saturday, 21st April
| 08:00 | Registration | |
| Paper Session 4 | 9:00 | Flipped Classroom Strategy to Help Underachievers in Java Programming Manoj Kumar P., Renumol V.G. & Sahana Murthy |
| 9:30 | Social Constructivism Learning Through Project Based Learning with Scaffolding in Flipped Classroom Azlina A.Rahman, Norasykin Mohd Zaid, Zaleha Abdullah, Hasnah Mohamed & Baharuddin Aris | |
| 10:00 | Transitioning from Block-based to Text-based Programming Languages Luke Moors, Andrew Luxton-Reilly & Paul Denny | |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| Paper Session 5 | 11:00 | Engaging Engineering Faculty in Transformative Practices Robin Nelson, Stephanie Garcia, Emily P. Bonner, Vittorio Marone, Timothy T. Yuen & JoAnn Browning |
| 11:30 | Preparing Student Teachers to Teach Mathematics with GeoGebra Nurhashimah Za’ba, Zaleha Ismail & Abdul Halim Abdullah | |
| 12:00 | Mobile Augmented Reality as a Teaching Medium in an Introductory Computer Graphics Course – An Engineering Lecturer’s Viewpoint Thomas Suselo, Burkhard C. Wunsche & Andrew Luxton-Reilly | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| Panel | 14:00 | Group Work Invited Panelists |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break and Posters | |
| Paper Session 6 | 16:00 | “Why am I Even Doing this?”: The Experiences of Female Students in CS from an Inside Perspective Moa Markland & Sara Gustavsson |
| 16:30 | Invited Paper Self-determined computing education: an Independent Learning Pathway Approach Samuel Mann, Glenys Ker, Kylie Ellis |
Sunday, 22nd April
| 08:00 | Registration | |
| Paper Session 7 | 9:00 | Interactive Learning of Abstract Programming Concepts with InteractiveOOP Asheer Ahmad, Harsh Chokshi, Giuseppe De Ruvo, Nasser Giacaman |
| 10:00 | How research came inside me as a new knowledge Anders Berglund, Ville Isomöttönen, Dekar Lhamo & Phurpa Tshering | |
| 10:30 | Is More Active Always Better for Teaching Introductory Programming? Adalbert Gerald Soosai Raj, Jignesh M. Patel & Richard Halverson | |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| Keynote Address | 11:00 | Strategies for Overcoming Assessment Challenges in Computer Science and Engineering Education Carmel McNaught |
| Closing Address | 12:00 | Closing address & Reflection 2019 Latice Conference Presentation |