In this episode I unpack Israel et al.’s (2015) publication titled “Empowering K–12 students with disabilities to learn computational thinking and computer programming,” which is a short article that provides some strategies to increase access and engagement among students with disabilities in CS education contexts.

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How to Get Started with Computer Science Education

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00:00 Intro

00:33 My single sentence summary

01:31 Paper introduction

03:14 Teaching computing through the UDL framework

05:55 Balancing instruction with open-ended inquiry

09:11 Encouraging collaboration

10:09 Student-to-student help seeking

11:42 Experiment with different software and hardware to increase accessibility

12:13 Lingering questions and thoughts

12:23 What strategies did Jesse Rathgeber mention in the previous podcast that might work well with the strategies mentioned in this article?

13:12 How might these strategies benefit all students (i.e., not just students with disabilities)?

14:14 Outro