9: Putting computing into schools

Now that we have spent some time thinking about literacy and identity, it is clear that the question of what K12 computing education ought to be involves much more than content knowledge. In pursuit of this question we turn to the third theme of the course, schooling. This week we examine several efforts to integrate computing education into schools, and the roles they envision schools playing within society. This is an opportunity to introduce the summative assessment of the class, the teaching statement.

Readings

Proctor, C., Bigman, M., & Blikstein, P. (2019). Defining and designing computer science education in a K12 public school district. Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (pp. 314–320). Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/3287324.3287440

Ryoo, J. J., Tanksley, T., Estrada, C., & Margolis, J. (2020 , July). Take space, make space: how students use computer science to disrupt and resist marginalization in schools. Computer Science Education, 30(3), 337–361. doi:10.1080/08993408.2020.1805284

Research Lab High School. A proposal for a UB+BPS university-assisted community school.