Paulo Blikstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 242773 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paulo Blikstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paulo |
| FAMILY NAME | Blikstein |
| SIGNATURE | BLIKSTEIN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3941-1088 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Right but wrong: How students' mechanistic reasoning and conceptual understandings shift when designing agent‐based models using data
When learning about scientific phenomena, students are expected to mechanistically explain how underlying interactions produce the observable phenomenon and conceptually connect the observed phenomenon to canonical scientific knowledge. This paper investigates how the integration of the complementary processes of designing and refining computational models using real‐world data can support students in developing mechanistic and canonically accura…
Making for science: A framework for the design of physical materials for science learning
Hands-on tasks make learning visible: A learning analytics lens on the development of mechanistic problem-solving expertise in makerspaces
This study investigated the impact of participating in a year-long digital-fabrication course on high-school seniors’ problem-solving skills, with a focus on problems involving mechanistic systems. The research questions centered on whether working in a makerspace impacted students’ abilities to solve such problems and whether the process data generated during problem-solving activities could be used to identify the different problem-solving appr…
Weaponizing John 8: 32: The Complex Interconnections Between Religion and Politics on Brazilian Twitter
Politics and religion are traditionally connected in large democracies, with many examples in the Global South. Recently in Brazil, a specific Bible verse has been assimilated into political expression and amplified by social media: John 8:32 ('And you shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free'). In this article, we employ thematic analysis of Twitter1 data referencing this verse, collected during the 2022 Brazilian presidential elect…
Ceci n'est pas une école: Discourses of artificial intelligence in education through the lens of semiotic analytics
New ideas and technologies enable new ways of doing as well as new forms of language. The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no exception. The implications of changing activity and language take on new gravity in certain fields to which AI is applied, such as education (AIEd). Terms like smart , intelligence , and learning , which had certain meanings when describing human cognition, take on new meanings in the context of computational syste…
“The village that learns”: A learning journey across intraventions and domains over two decades in a rural Thai community
What does it mean to become a village that learns? In this paper we document the transformative learning journey of a small Thai village over 24 years, becoming a community that identified, tackled, and iterated on problems, altering their everyday practices and lives. In that process the village shifted from a subsistence agricultural community staggeringly in debt to one known for its sustainable environmental, agricultural, and financial initi…
Viagens em Troia com Freire: A Tecnologia Como Um Agente De Emancipação
A rápida penetração de novas tecnologias na escola constitui uma oportunidade para a disseminação da filosofia de dois importantes teóricos da educação: Seymour Papert e Paulo Freire. As tecnologias digitais possibilitam formas diversas e inovadoras de trabalhar, expressar e construir. Essa adaptabilidade camaleônica da mídia computacional promove diversidade epistemológica (TURKLE; PAPERT, 1991), criando um ambiente no qual os alunos, na sua pró…
Viagens em Troia com Freire: A Tecnologia Como Um Agente De Emancipação
A rápida penetração de novas tecnologias na escola constitui uma oportunidade para a disseminação da filosofia de dois importantes teóricos da educação: Seymour Papert e Paulo Freire. As tecnologias digitais possibilitam formas diversas e inovadoras de trabalhar, expressar e construir. Essa adaptabilidade camaleônica da mídia computacional promove diversidade epistemológica (TURKLE; PAPERT, 1991), criando um ambiente no qual os alunos, na sua pró…
Viagens em Troia com Freire: A Tecnologia Como Um Agente De Emancipação
A rápida penetração de novas tecnologias na escola constitui uma oportunidade para a disseminação da filosofia de dois importantes teóricos da educação: Seymour Papert e Paulo Freire. As tecnologias digitais possibilitam formas diversas e inovadoras de trabalhar, expressar e construir. Essa adaptabilidade camaleônica da mídia computacional promove diversidade epistemológica (TURKLE; PAPERT, 1991), criando um ambiente no qual os alunos, na sua pró…
Ceci n'est pas une école: Discourses of artificial intelligence in education through the lens of semiotic analytics
New ideas and technologies enable new ways of doing as well as new forms of language. The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no exception. The implications of changing activity and language take on new gravity in certain fields to which AI is applied, such as education (AIEd). Terms like smart , intelligence , and learning , which had certain meanings when describing human cognition, take on new meanings in the context of computational syste…
“The village that learns”: A learning journey across intraventions and domains over two decades in a rural Thai community
What does it mean to become a village that learns? In this paper we document the transformative learning journey of a small Thai village over 24 years, becoming a community that identified, tackled, and iterated on problems, altering their everyday practices and lives. In that process the village shifted from a subsistence agricultural community staggeringly in debt to one known for its sustainable environmental, agricultural, and financial initi…
Weaponizing John 8: 32: The Complex Interconnections Between Religion and Politics on Brazilian Twitter
Politics and religion are traditionally connected in large democracies, with many examples in the Global South. Recently in Brazil, a specific Bible verse has been assimilated into political expression and amplified by social media: John 8:32 ('And you shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free'). In this article, we employ thematic analysis of Twitter1 data referencing this verse, collected during the 2022 Brazilian presidential elect…
Making for science: A framework for the design of physical materials for science learning
Hands-on tasks make learning visible: A learning analytics lens on the development of mechanistic problem-solving expertise in makerspaces
This study investigated the impact of participating in a year-long digital-fabrication course on high-school seniors’ problem-solving skills, with a focus on problems involving mechanistic systems. The research questions centered on whether working in a makerspace impacted students’ abilities to solve such problems and whether the process data generated during problem-solving activities could be used to identify the different problem-solving appr…
Right but wrong: How students' mechanistic reasoning and conceptual understandings shift when designing agent‐based models using data
When learning about scientific phenomena, students are expected to mechanistically explain how underlying interactions produce the observable phenomenon and conceptually connect the observed phenomenon to canonical scientific knowledge. This paper investigates how the integration of the complementary processes of designing and refining computational models using real‐world data can support students in developing mechanistic and canonically accura…
Computer Science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Design Education and Practice (2 works) · Educational technology (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)