Megan Venn-Wycherley
Digital Civics Doctoral Trainee
My research aims to understand how we can develop meaningful university-school partnerships for computing education. What role should the university play in supporting local computing education? How can we support computing curriculum design? How can we look to share resources and research outcomes?
I’ve been exploring how undergraduate students could collaborate with teachers to create and deliver lessons using the BBC micro:bit, resulting in 30 hours of computing resources. I have also been working on the 12 week Micro:Vote python curriculum, in collaboration with teachers and pupils from Churchill Community College. My current project looks to explore how Newcastle University’s STEM research can be used to design exciting computing lessons, and how we can share resources for schools to deliver these sessions independently.
I am also the Youth and Technology researcher in the Not-Equal project, running engagements with pupils around algorithmic social justice, artificial intelligence, technology and ethics.
HOPE for computing education: Supporting university-school partnerships
Sense Explorers: tools for children to transform the environment
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2024
The Realities of Evaluating Educational Technology in School Settings
2024 – ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
2020
Engaging Science and Engineering Students in Computing Education through Learner-Created Videos and Physical Computing Tools
2020 – 4th Conference in Computing Education Practice CEP 2020
Design Studios for K-12 Computing Education
2020 – 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science
2019
Teaching Students How to Code Using Physical Computing Tools
2019 – ChemEngDay 2019
HOPE for Computing Education: Towards the Infrastructuring of Support for University-School Partnerships
2019 – CHI '19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems