Week 1 Slides

Critical Computational Literacies

Dr. Chris Proctor

LAI 686, Spring 2022

Week 1: February 1, 2022

Notes: I should introduce myself

Announcements

We'll keep meeting online

Act I

Introductions, goal-setting

Act II

Discuss reading; conceptual overview of the course

Act III

Course logistics

Act I

4:10-4:55pm

Introductions

Who are you?

I view identity as authored in context: we are who we decide to be in a particular situation, to the extent we can pull it off. Who are you showing up here as?

What brings you here?

What do you hope to learn in this course? What is your research about? How do you hope this course advances your work as a scholar and/or educator?

Act II

5:05-5:50pm

Hanging out, messing around, geeking out

Big ideas

Digital ethnography
Media ecology
Genre of participation
Networked publics
New media literacies
Learning

Case studies

Is this still relevant?

What work needs to be done now?

Act III

6:00-6:45pm

Course logistics

Syllabus
Major assignments
Questions?

Notes:

Come to class every week with an argument, with something to say.

Next Week: Computational thinking

We will read Grover & Pea (2013), which summarizes the state CS (as of 2013), as well as Denning (2017), who identifies remaining "trouble spots" with computational thinking.