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Gordon: Combat "I can't" problem with examples, inspiration, honesty about challenges, easy language, encouragement #jiconf

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Gordon: Get students to think of selves in roles (reporting, storytelling, publishing) rather than media silos #jiconf

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More of Matt Waite's thoughts: http://t.co/zM0gfakM #jiconf

[Jeff Inman @MagStudies]

Like this idea. RT: How about an internal course of math, statistics and programming with journalism context? Sophomore level. Core. #jiconf

[Cindy Royal @CindyRoyal]

.@mattwaite says if you say you're not good at computers, drop & give me 20. And don't celebrate ignorance. #jiconf

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Waite: Journalism students vs. Tech students = "I can't" vs. "I can't right now" #jiconf

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Waite: "I tell my classes this is going to be hard, and you're going to be confused... Then it's gonna click." #jiconf

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Gordon: You have to meet students "where they are" in relation to their computer science knowledge and confidence. #jiconf

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Gordon: program success: Students created an app "Newsfeed" which has news stories of varying length depending on time constraints. #jiconf

[amy schmitz weiss @digitalamysw]

Bilingual is key - in teaching language and terms among journos and programmers says @richgor #jiconf

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Gordon: Comp. sci. courses don't work for journ. students- rather, embed intro programming into journalism course. #jiconf

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Gordon: Joint classes, co-taught by comp sci and journalism faculty with cross-disciplinary teams worked to teach comp. journalism #jiconf

[Cindy Royal @CindyRoyal]

What didn't work at Medill. Interesting observations fr @richgor #jiconf http://t.co/9LJeB4LS

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Gordon: Journalism is more than reporting and presentation- it's every piece of the chain, all the way past publication. #jiconf

[amy schmitz weiss @digitalamysw]

TimeFlow - a visualization tool for temporal data. #jiconf http://t.co/fcuDM7FW

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Cohen: Speech recognition is probably going to become a really important set of technologies for reporting #jiconf

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Cohen: Digging into Data http://t.co/UwoDFVg8 #jiconf

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Cohen: How do we reach out to different disciplines? #jiconf