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Overview

Paulo Blikstein is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Computer Science and Social Sciences, with specific focus on applications in these areas and intersections with Sociology, Political Science, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, and Communication.

Their contributions cover various topics including:

  • Teaching and Learning Programming
  • Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Statistics Education and Methodologies
  • Online Learning and Analytics
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research

Blikstein has co-authored numerous publications alongside frequent collaborators such as Leah F. Rosenbaum, Tamar Fuhrmann, Renato Russo, Adelmo Eloy, and Michelle Hoda Wilkerson.

Their recent papers include:

  • EDUCAÇÃO MAKER: ONDE ESTÁ O CURRÍCULO? (2020), Revista e-Curriculum
  • Scientific Inquiry in Middle Schools by combining Computational Thinking, Wet Lab Experiments, and Liquid Handling Robots (2021), Interaction Design and Children
  • Teaching With Hapkit: Enabling Online Haptics Courses With Hands-On Laboratories (2020), IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
  • DIY liquid handling robots for integrated STEM education and life science research (2022), PLoS ONE
  • MoDa: Designing a Tool to Interweave Computational Modeling with Real-world Data Analysis for Science Learning in Middle School (2022), Interaction Design and Children

The venues in which Blikstein has published most frequently include:

  • Proceedings.
  • Interaction Design and Children
  • Constructionism Conference Proceedings
  • Journal of Science Education and Technology
  • Educational Technology Research and Development

In addition to articles, Blikstein has contributed to book publications. Notably, they authored Makers at School, Educational Robotics and Innovative Learning Environments (2021), published by Springer International Publishing.

Best Publications

  • Digital Fabrication and Making' in Education: The Democratization of Invention

    Paulo Blikstein

  • Multimodal Learning Analytics and Education Data Mining: Using computational technologies to measure complex learning tasks

    Paulo Blikstein;Paulo Blikstein;Marcelo Aaron Bonilla Worsley

  • Using learning analytics to assess students' behavior in open-ended programming tasks

    Paulo Blikstein

  • Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics: Applications to Constructionist Research.

    Matthew Berland;Ryan S. Baker;Paulo Blikstein

  • Multimodal learning analytics

    Paulo Blikstein

  • Programming Pluralism: Using Learning Analytics to Detect Patterns in the Learning of Computer Programming

    Paulo Blikstein;Marcelo Worsley;Chris Piech;Mehran Sahami

  • The makers' movement and FabLabs in education: experiences, technologies, and research

    Paulo Blikstein;Dennis Krannich

  • Modeling how students learn to program

    Chris Piech;Mehran Sahami;Daphne Koller;Steve Cooper

  • Gears of our childhood: constructionist toolkits, robotics, and physical computing, past and future

    Paulo Blikstein

  • Children Are Not Hackers: Building a Culture of Powerful Ideas, Deep Learning, and Equity in the Maker Movement.

    Paulo Blikstein;Marcelo Aaron Bonilla Worsley

  • An Atom is Known by the Company it Keeps: A Constructionist Learning Environment for Materials Science Using Agent-Based Modeling

    Paulo Blikstein;Uri Wilensky

  • An Assessment Instrument of Technological Literacies in Makerspaces and FabLabs

    Paulo Blikstein;Zaza Kabayadondo;Andrew Martin;Deborah A. Fields

  • Preparing for Future Learning with a Tangible User Interface: The Case of Neuroscience

    B. Schneider;J. Wallace;P. Blikstein;R. Pea

  • GoGo board: augmenting programmable bricks for economically challenged audiences

    Arnan Sipitakiat;Paulo Blikstein;David P. Cavallo

  • Unraveling Students’ Interaction Around a Tangible Interface using Multimodal Learning Analytics

    Bertrand Schneider;Paulo Blikstein

  • Towards the development of multimodal action based assessment

    Marcelo Worsley;Paulo Blikstein

  • Learning Analytics: From Big Data to Meaningful Data

    Agathe Merceron;Paulo Blikstein;George Siemens

  • Leveraging multimodal learning analytics to differentiate student learning strategies

    Marcelo Worsley;Paulo Blikstein

  • Trap it!: A Playful Human-Biology Interaction for a Museum Installation

    Seung Ah Lee;Engin Bumbacher;Alice M. Chung;Nate Cira

  • Digital Fabrication and ‘Making’ in Education

    Paulo Blikstein

  • Interactive and scalable biology cloud experimentation for scientific inquiry and education

    Zahid Hossain;Engin W Bumbacher;Alice M Chung;Honesty Kim

  • LightUp: an augmented, learning platform for electronics

    Joshua Chan;Tarun Pondicherry;Paulo Blikstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Uri Wilensky
Uri Wilensky Northwestern University
Roy D. Pea
Roy D. Pea Stanford University
Allison M. Okamura
Allison M. Okamura Stanford University
Daphne Koller
Daphne Koller insitro Inc.
Mehran Sahami
Mehran Sahami Stanford University
Yasmin B. Kafai
Yasmin B. Kafai University of Pennsylvania
Ryan S. Baker
Ryan S. Baker University of Pennsylvania
Allan Collins
Allan Collins Northwestern University
Jeremy Roschelle
Jeremy Roschelle Digital Promise
Carl E. Wieman
Carl E. Wieman Stanford University

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