4: Critical computational literacies

Week 4 (September 18)

We will draw parallels between the disciplinary conversation within English/Language Arts and current debates within K-12 CS education in order to center questions of inclusion, representation, and power. We will identify several specific senses of "critical" education and make connections between the readings and our own experiences as students and teachers.

Agenda

Act	Activities
I	Conceptual framework (Lecture)
II	Power (Discuss Noble and Zuboff)
III	Criticality (Discuss Lee & Garcia)

• Please read Zuboff, Ch. 1: "Home or Exile in the Digital Future."
• Please read Noble, Introduction "The Power of Algorithms" and Chapter 2, "Searching for Black Girls."
• Be sure to carefully read the section starting on p. 71 which theorizes race and racialization.

• Critical Computational Literacies Fall 2023
• Assignments
• Schedule
• 1. Schooling in the age of computers
• Week 2: Computational thinking
• 3: Computational literacies
• 4: Critical computational literacies
• 5: Computing and identity
• 6: Identity, culture, and intersectionality
• 7: Fall break
• 8: Mediated identity
• 9: Disciplinary identities
• 10: Literacy places
• 11: Designing and defining computer science
• 12: Supporting critical action
• 13: Connecting across literacies
• 14: Connected learning