Jack Parkinson
Office |
F151 Lilybank Gardens |
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Jack.Parkinson@glasgow.ac.uk | |
Website | jack-parkinson.com |
Availability | isjackinameeting.com |
Phone | 01413308573 (campus) |
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6175-7638
Research title: Exploiting the Connection between Spatial Skills and Computer Science
Research Summary
Spatial Skills have been shown to be connected to success in STEM domains for decades; Computing Science is no exception. My work aims to tease out this relationship and identify specific ways in which computing and spatial ability are connected. The existing theory is that spatial skills tests and exercises rely upon an ability to develop and manipulate internal mental models, a process which also seems to apply to areas of computing (for example, construction of notional machines or identification and classification of elements in the Block Model).
Supervisors
Conference
- 2021 Koli Calling (Joensuu, Finland, November 18-20 2021)
- Presented full-length conference paper
- 2021 ACM Conference of United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research (Glasgow, UK, September 2-3 2021)
- Event Chair
- Submission Chair
- Designed, developed and hosted conference platform
- Managed publication workflow
- Presented workshop session
- 2020 ACM Conference of United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research (Glasgow, UK, September 3-4 2020)
- Event Chair
- Submission Chair
- Designed, developed and hosted conference platform
- Managed publication workflow
- Presented full-length conference paper
- 2020 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (Dunedin, New Zealand, August 11-14 2020)
- Attended doctoral consortium
- Presented lighting talk and poster
- 2020 Digital Heroisms Symposium (Glasgow, UK, August 5 2020)
- Local organising committee
- Platform Chair
- 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (Trondheim, Norway, June 15-17 2020)
- Presented full-length conference paper
- 2019 Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education (Glasgow, UK, October 23-25 2019)
- Local organising committee
- Presented workshop session
- 2019 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (Aberdeen, UK, July 15-17 2019)
- Participated in a working group
- Secondary author on award winning paper
- 2018 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (Espoo, Finland, 13-15 August)
- Presented full-length conference paper
- Primary author on award winning paper
Teaching
Current:
- Spatial Skills Training 1 (Course coordinator)
- CS1: Computational Thinking (Tutor)
- CS1: Systems (Tutor)
- CS1: Python Programming (Standard and Alternate Routes) (Tutor)
- GA: Programming Summer School (Tutor)
Past:
- CS+ (Masters): Programming Systems and Development (Lab Assistant)
- GA: How to Learn a New Language (Demonstrator)
- Interactive Systems (H) (Lab Assistant)
- Cyber Security Fundamentals (H/M) (Lab Assistant)
- Faster Route: Succeeding in University Study in Computing Science (Technical Tutor)
- Pre-Sessional: Introductory Python (M) (Tutor)
- CS1: Computing Fundamentals (Tutor)
Additional Information
- Previously worked as a Research Assistant involved in the development (up to delivery) of the Graduate Apprenticeship in Software Engineering programme, the first Graduate Apprenticeship programme launched at the University of Glasgow
- Inaugural coordinator of the CCSE weekly seminar series
- Representative for Level 1 Tutors in Computing Science
- Member of the School of Computer Science's Tutor Working Group
- CCSE website coordinator and representative on the School of Computer Science's internal Website Committee