In this episode I unpack Yadav and Heath’s (2022) publication titled “Breaking the code: Confronting racism in computer science through community criticality, and citizenship,” which articulates some biases in CS curricular design and pedagogy, then provides three suggestions for teaching CS as an agenda for social reconstruction.

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How to Get Started with Computer Science Education

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00:00 Intro

00:25 Abstract

01:16 My single sentence summary

02:35 Paper introduction

10:48 Theoretical framework

12:56 Community, criticality, and citizenship in computer science

14:34 Community

18:15 Criticality

26:06 Citizenship

29:50 Lingering questions and thoughts

29:59 How might we integrate ethical design principles into learning CS content?

31:13 When might a focus on one image of curriculum within a field or domain become a form of colonization?

34:44 Outro