In this interview with Siobahn Grady, we discuss the importance of self care and healthy boundaries, the impact of education, misconceptions and problematic assumptions people make with HBCUs, misconceptions and misunderstandings of being a professor in CS, lessons learned using machine learning to identify authorship of tweets, exploring the implications of social media and technology with students, the intersections of arts and CS, improving equity and inclusion in computing through action, and much more.

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How to Get Started with Computer Science Education

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00:00 Intro

01:00 An introduction by Siobahn

04:44 How Siobahn became the first woman to get a PhD in computer science from her university

07:26 Advice for people who have had their motivation lowered

09:57 How Siobahn prevents burnout

12:46 Something Siobahn changed her mind about with CS education

14:44 Misconceptions people have about HBCUs

16:11 What Siobahn wishes more people understood with HBCUs

18:16 Misconceptions people have about professors of computer science

19:36 What Siobahn has learned researching machine learning

22:57 How researching social media has impacted Siobahn

25:26 What Siobahn wishes more CS educators helped students understand about social media

28:15 How the arts has impacted Siobahn's journey in CS

31:00 How Siobahn practices or improves on her own abilities as a CS educator and scholar

34:35 How to find your passion

36:34 Recommendations for improving equity and inclusion in computer science education

39:35 What Siobahn wishes there was more research on

41:44 What Siobahn would love to collaborate on

42:39 What's holding back computer science and what we can do about it

46:16 How to connect with Siobahn

47:08 Outro