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Session Chair: Victoria Van Hyning, University of Maryland, iSchool
Location:B304 (TB)
64 places
Presentations
What Happens When "Hacking" Becomes Easy? Teaching Python in 2025
Filipa Calado1, Patrick Smyth2, Stephen Zweibel3, Rafael Davis Portela3
1Pratt Institute, School of Information; 2Chainguard; 3The Graduate Center, CUNY
The emergence of AI coding tools poses urgent questions about the future of Python education. What happens when "hacking" becomes easy? Does the streamlining of technical processes diminish the intellectual labor of coding? In this panel, four seasoned Python instructors consider the evolving role of Python—and programming broadly—in DH.
‘Doing’ DH in the Indian Vernacular/s: Ensuring Access and Accessibility Through Vernacular Medium Instruction (?)
Sharanya Ghosh1, Arpita Rathod2
1Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur; 2Ravenshaw University
The presentation focuses on the questions of feasibility, access and inclusivity in DH education fostered through the use of Indian vernacular lanaguages for classroom instructions, translation and creation of academic resources. It uses case study analysis and survey methods as its methodology.
Key findings from “Crowdsourced Data: Accuracy, Accessibility, and Authority (CDAAA)”
Victoria Van Hyning, Mace Jones
University of Maryland, College of Information, United States of America
This paper will discuss findings from "Crowdsourced Data: Accuracy, Accessibility, Authority", a project investigating the successes and challenges that US-based LAM organizations experience when making crowdsourced transcription content accessible to blind and low vision users.