Prof Arnold Pears / Australian working in Sweden

Meet Australian Professor Arnold Pears who left in the late 1990s for Europe, and Sweden. His home is in Uppsala where he lives with his family. He is the Head of the Department of Learning in Engineering Sciences at Stockholm’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology or "Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan".

In this conversation Prof Pears shares his thoughts about his work in Sweden, he shares his concerns about the future lack of STEM teachers in Sweden and ways Higher Education can create opportunities for students to enrol in STEM subjects. He shares his thoughts about AI & Chat GPT and the staggering cost in electricity that 'no one' is talking about.

pears@kth.se

Articles:  

A. Pears, M. Tedre, T. Valtonen and H. Vartiainen, (2021) "What Makes Computational Thinking so Troublesome?,"  2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Lincoln, NE, USA, 2021, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/FIE49875.2021.9637416.

Hartell, E., Kozma, C., Pears, A. (2022)
K-ULF A Collaborative, Practitioner Research Model between School and Academia: Lessons learned In: Gill, D., Tuff, J., Kennedy, T.,Pendergast, S. & Jamil, S. (ed.), Designing a better world through technological literacy for all. : Proceedings for PATT39. (pp. 122-133). St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada: Faculty of Education, Memorial University, Canada

Teaching machine learning in K–12 classroom: Pedagogical and technological trajectories for artificial intelligence education

Matti Tedre, Tapani Toivonen, Juho Kahila, Henriikka Vartiainen, Teemu Valtonen, Ilkka Jormanainen, Arnold Pears (2021)

IEEE Access 9, 110558-110572

Designing computer science competency statements: A process and curriculum model for the 21st century

Alison Clear, Tony Clear, Abhijat Vichare, Thea Charles, Stephen Frezza, Mirela Gutica, Barry Lunt, Francesco Maiorana, Arnold Pears, Francois Pitt, Charles Riedesel, Justyna Szynkiewicz (2020) - Proceedings of the Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education 211-246