In this episode I unpack Washington's (2020) paper titled "When twice as good isn't enough: The case for cultural competence in computing," which explores the five elements and six stages of cultural competence in relation to undergraduate computing programs.

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00:00 Intro

00:50 Abstract

02:13 My single sentence summary

02:37 Paper introduction

04:04 What is cultural competence?

11:34 Six stages of cultural competence

16:09 What does this have to do with computer science education?

19:50 Race, gender, and computing

21:12 Lingering questions and thoughts

21:27 How might K-12 CS educators adapt the structure of the “Race, Gender, and Computing” course?

23:42 How do the enrollment demographics for 2020 CS programs differ from a few years ago?

24:24 Outro