https://csedpodcast.org/tags/tpb/Recent content in TPB on CS-Ed Podcast Home PageHugo -- gohugo.ioen-USMon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e15_lit_mapping/Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e15_lit_mapping/Episode Summary In this teaching practice byte (TPB), Dr. Brian Harrington discusses his SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2025 paper on Literature Mapping, a scaffolded, scalable, low-overhead way to introduce undergraduate students to research and bootstrap a student research group. We discuss how literature mapping helps students practice reading many papers in progressively more depth. His process assigns each paper to two different students, builds in flexibility for students who leave partway through, and culminates in a publishable artifact that students can be proud of.https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e12_tpb_meet_the_prof/Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e12_tpb_meet_the_prof/Episode Summary In this teaching practice byte (TPB), we talk to Professor Emeritus William G. Griswold about his teaching practice Meet the Professor, where he has short, small-group meetings with every student in his 200+ student course. Bill originally shared this practice as a SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2024 experience report. In our conversation, we discussed how the practice fosters engagement, why group meetings proved better than one-on-one, how such connections are increasingly valuable as AI tools reduce traditional social interactions, and his latest updates and reflections on the practice since his experience report.https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e8_tpb_multi_part_q_a/Mon, 06 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e8_tpb_multi_part_q_a/Episode Summary Dr. Luther Tychonievich from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign shares with us his multi-step Q&A process where he solicits questions from his students to get more diverse questions and strongly signals to them that he wants questions. Dr. Tychonievich goes into detail about how to shorten the exercise if you have less time, as well as considerations and ways to respond to the questions when an answer is not necessarily appropriate.https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e6_tpb_peer_instruction/Mon, 02 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e6_tpb_peer_instruction/Episode Summary Peer instruction is a way to move the easy-to-learn content to before lecture, so you can spend more time during lecture on developing understanding. In this teaching practice byte, we talk to Dr. Beth Simon from UC San Diego about peer instruction, what context she’s used it in, how she does it, and nuanced details that aren’t always discussed when reading about this active learning technique. You can also download this episode directly.https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e4_tpb_coding_tutor/Mon, 06 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e4_tpb_coding_tutor/Episode Summary Philip Guo, an Associate Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego, built Python Tutor, which is neither just for Python nor really a tutor. It’s actually a tool to visualize what code is doing! In today’s episode, he talks about the other programming languages it supports (Java, C, and C++), gives examples of how he uses it, and explains the nuances of when to use it.https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e2_tpb_physical_java_models/Mon, 08 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e2_tpb_physical_java_models/Episode Summary Teaching Practice Byte (TPB): In our first TPB episode we invite Colleen Lewis back to the podcast to talk about her physical models of Java that help her teach students how Java objects work. Colleen was originally on our podcast way back in Season one! We go into detail about what kinds of classes she uses these models in, what the models are, how she uses them, where they would and would not work, and where the idea came from.