{"591113":{"#nid":"591113","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Learning to Think Like a Computer","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENew York Times quotes Mark Guzdial. \u0026quot;That there is no reliable research showing that computing makes one more creative or more able to problem-solve. It won\u0026rsquo;t make you better at something unless that something is explicitly taught, said Mark Guzdial, a professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech who studies computing in education. \u0026ldquo;You can\u0026rsquo;t prove a negative,\u0026rdquo; he said, but in decades of research no one has found that skills automatically transfer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead more here:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/04\/education\/edlife\/teaching-students-computer-code.html?hp\u0026amp;action=click\u0026amp;pgtype=Homepage\u0026amp;clickSource=story-heading\u0026amp;module=second-column-region\u0026amp;region=top-news\u0026amp;WT.nav=top-news\u0026amp;_r=1\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/04\/education\/edlife\/teaching-students-computer-code.html?hp\u0026amp;action=click\u0026amp;pgtype=Homepage\u0026amp;clickSource=story-heading\u0026amp;module=second-column-region\u0026amp;region=top-news\u0026amp;WT.nav=top-news\u0026amp;_r=1\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28466","created_gmt":"2017-04-28 17:23:32","changed_gmt":"2017-04-28 17:23:32","author":"Meghana Melkote","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Would never be part of any organization that would have me as a member","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/04\/education\/edlife\/teaching-students-computer-code.html?hp\u0026action=click\u0026pgtype=Homepage\u0026clickSource=story-heading\u0026module=second-column-region\u0026region=top-news\u0026WT.nav=top-news\u0026_r=1","dateline":{"date":"2017-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}