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Bits and Behavior

Amy J. Ko

AERA 2024 trip report: blight and belief

Although I’ve always loved teaching and learning, as a PhD student in the early 2000’s, I never imagined myself an education researcher. I…

17 min read1 day ago

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Two imposing marble columns, a dimly lit hallway, and a hundred attendees swarming.

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SIGCSE 2024 trip report

Always hallways

15 min readMar 23, 2024

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Two projector screens saying SIGCSE 2024 with a podium at the center.

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Power, ignorance, and the healing promise of curiosity

The roots of anti-trans hate

7 min readFeb 5, 2024

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A dark wooded scene with white and pink spheres hovering in the air.

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Data dependency

Rumination on remembering

7 min readJan 29, 2024

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A stick figure with long black hair in a bright red haze running away from a network of nodes and edges in cool blue haze.

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Individual and collective recognition

By elevating individuals, we erase community.

7 min readJan 22, 2024

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Individual and collective recognition

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More than calculators: Why large language models threaten public education

And what we should do about it.

16 min readDec 18, 2023

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An orange pen held by a hand about to write on grid-lined paper.

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Autumn 2023 wrap: brick walls and boundaries

What happened in Autumn in Amy land?

11 min readDec 15, 2023

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A brick wall, half grey, half pink.

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Wordplay: accessible, language-inclusive, interactive typography

Public beta is available today.

12 min readOct 31, 2023

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A web page with a left, a right, and several footers. The left shows a text editor with colorful computer code, a yellow highlight, and a magenta highlight on top of it, indicating a selection of a “translate” statement that converts a list of symbols into a list of Phrases for display. The right shows a 5 by 5 grid of symbols, one of them fading in to the grid. The footers show a timeline, several file names, and navigation links and settings.

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Programming is sculpting

Logic as art

4 min readOct 2, 2023

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An organic petal-like pattern of three dimensional shapes.

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A quiet sabbatical

My childhood was not a quiet one.

10 min readSep 4, 2023

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Amy holding her smartphone in front of a round mirror, with a print of a woman in sunglasses with red lipstick and colorful tiger wallpaper.

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This is the blog for the Code & Cognition lab, directed by professor Amy J. Ko, Ph.D. at the University of Washington. Here we reflect on our individual and collective struggle to understand computing and harness it for justice. See our work at https://faculty.washington.edu/ajko
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Amy J. Ko
Professor, University of Washington iSchool (she/her). Code, learning, design, justice. Trans, queer, parent, and lover of learning.

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