In this episode I unpack Franklin et al.’s (2020) publication titled “Scratch Encore: The design and pilot of a culturally-relevant intermediate Scratch curriculum,” which introduces the Scratch Encore curriculum and provides a quick summary of positive feedback from the teachers who used the curriculum during a pilot year.

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How to Get Started with Computer Science Education

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00:00 Intro

00:56 Abstract

01:42 My one sentence summary

01:54 Paper introduction

03:27 Theory and prior work

05:33 Scratch Encore design

07:49 Methods

08:10 Results

09:01 Lingering questions and thoughts

09:05 Who gets to determine what kids consider as part of their culture or identities?

11:17 Where is the line between culturally-relevant curricula and culturally-specific curricula?

12:38 How might CS educators and curriculum developers prevent efforts in culturally-relevant experiences from coming across as pandering to youth culture?

13:21 An interesting teacher quote that got me thinking

14:21 What didn't teachers like about the curriculum?

15:07 Outro