Dr. Ko studies equitable, liberatory learning about computing and information, in schools and beyond, drawing from human-computer interaction, computing education, software engineering, programming languages, learning sciences, behavioral sciences, sociology, and more.
Affiliations
Professor, Associate Dean for Academics, UW Information School
Adjunct Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
Adjunct Professor, College of of Education
Co-Director, Center for Learning, Computing, and Imagination
Research highlights
How can programmable media support all learners’ abilities and language fluencies?
I work on 💬︎ Wordplay, an accessible, multilingual educational programming language for creating interactive typography. I’d love to collaborate with you on that, or create new media with you, in partnership with teachers.
How can computing teachers be culturally responsive and sustaining in highly diverse classrooms?
Teachers consistently share how hard it is to be responsive with the incredible diversity of student needs, identities, interests, abilities, and assets in their classrooms. How can we make that easier, through new teaching methods, new learning technologies, and new media?
Recent awards and honors
- ACM SIGCHI Academy, 2022
- ACM Distinguished Member, 2024
- Best Paper – ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), 2024
- Most Influential Paper – IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2024
Leadership activities:
- Editor-in-Chief, ACM TOCE
- Co-Director, CS for All WA
- Co-Director, Reciprocal Reviews
Related news
The UW Information School article about Ko’s leadership in the expansion of computer education in Washington, including creating new training techniques for computer science teachers and building a coding platform that works with all of the world’s written languages.