Week 3: Strategies to increase equity in CS
LEARN
What are Equitable CS Teaching Strategies?
Take a deeper dive (optional)
- Watch: Implicit bias: Cause and mitigation, Implicit bias: Biases in CS and Side effects of underrepresentation with Dr. Luther Tychonievich, UVA CS Dept
- Read: Strategies to Create Equitable CS Experiences from Creating Equitable CS Experiences Handbook
- Resources:
- Week 3 slide deck
- CS Institute 2021 resources <-- Please feel free to add resources you have found
Take a deeper dive (optional)
- Watch: Handling grandstanding to improve inclusivity with Dr. Luther Tychonievich, UVA CS Dept
- Listen: Holding Space and Interrogating Privilege (Modern Figures podcast)
- Read: Tricky Situations: How would you respond to different biased statements? (CSTA Conference)
- Read: Culturally Responsive-Sustaining CS Education: A Framework (Kapor Center)
- Read: Inclusive Teaching Pedagogies (CSTA)
- Do: Implicit Association Test from Project Implicit
DO
Either choose a new lesson or update lesson from week 2 and add 1-2 equitable CS teaching strategies you plan to try out when you teach the lesson.
Note 1: We are providing CS-infused activities, lessons, and units used by Kim Wilkens (Miss-Bit). Please contact Kim (ksw8y@virginia.edu), if you have any questions about these lessons. We are also providing links to other lesson repositories.
Note 2: No matter which lesson you choose for remixing, please use the Lesson Plan Template. Check out the video tutorial and lesson plan cheat sheet for more info. Here are some examples of CS-infused lessons using the template:
Note 1: We are providing CS-infused activities, lessons, and units used by Kim Wilkens (Miss-Bit). Please contact Kim (ksw8y@virginia.edu), if you have any questions about these lessons. We are also providing links to other lesson repositories.
Note 2: No matter which lesson you choose for remixing, please use the Lesson Plan Template. Check out the video tutorial and lesson plan cheat sheet for more info. Here are some examples of CS-infused lessons using the template:
More CS Lesson Repositories
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Connect
The 2021 CS Institute is no longer "live", so office hours are no longer available, but please contact Kim Wilkens (ksw8y@virginia.edu) if you want to connect with the Charlottesville Computer Science Community.
Reflect
Reflect on your preconceived notion about CS. How were they influenced by stereotypes and bias? What strategy will you employ to increase equity in CS?
