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Record W2142615073 · doi:10.1109/fie.2008.4720686

Integrating mobile devices into the computer science curriculum

2008· article· en· W2142615073 on OpenAlexaff
Qusay H. Mahmoud

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicTeaching and Learning Programming
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMobile deviceComputer scienceCapstoneCurriculumMultimediaContext (archaeology)Mobile computingMobile technologyHuman–computer interactionWorld Wide WebTelecommunications

Abstract

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Mobile devices such as cellular phones and smart personal digital assistants out-ship personal computers (PCs) 20 to 1, and for many students the mobile device is becoming the computer. Such devices are becoming more powerful than the PCs of twenty years ago and they represent a useful tool for conveying important computer science concepts. This calls for innovations in the computer science curriculum, not only in some specific courses but across the curriculum to create a motivating framework for computer science students. After all, students expect faculty to integrate leading edge technology in the classroom. Here we present our approach for integrating mobile devices into the Computer Science curriculum, supported by an example of our experience in integrating BlackBerry devices into two programming courses, a distributed systems course, and senior capstone projects. Some of the courses are lab-intensive where students experiment with the devices, and develop and deploy applications for them. Teaching computer science and programming in the context of mobile applications provides a motivating framework for students and inspires them to excel due to the practical experience they gain allowing them to develop applications for their own mobile devices.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.028

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.263
Teacher spread0.252 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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