Week 3: Strategies to increase equity in CS

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LEARN

Watch: 

• Implicit bias: Cause and mitigation
• Implicit bias: Biases in CS
• Side effects of underrepresentation

Read

• Equitable Teaching Strategies for CS (brief summary of videos from Dr. Luther Tychonievich)
  
• Equitable Teaching Resources (CS Institute resource, please add to it)
  

Listen

• Holding Space and Interrogating Privilege (Modern Figures podcast)
  

Take a deeper dive:
Watch: 

• Panel Discussion: Culturally Responsive/Relevant Pedagogy and Instruction in the CS Classroom (video, Georgia Tech, June 2020)
• LighthouseCC Tapestry Workshop videos 

Read:

• Week 3 slide deck
• Guidance for Inclusive Teaching (CSTA)
• Equitable Teaching Resources (CS Institute resource, please add to it)
• When Twice as Good Isn't Enough: The Case for Cultural Competence in Computing (SIGCSE, March 2020)
• Shana White, Critical Race Theory session from CSTA

Play: Microagressions: The Game! created by Dr. Colleen Lewis

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DO

• If you haven’t done it before, try taking an Implicit Association Test from Project Implicit 
• Check out the Unlearning Beliefs worksheet from the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA)
• Update a CS lesson plan with strategies to increase equity in CS. Need inspiration? Check out the resources below:
  

K-8

• CCSC group on #GoOpenVA
  
• CS Institute 2020 Resources
  
• CS First from Google
  
• Computer Science for All in SF
  
• CS Unplugged activities
• Hello Ruby

9-12

• Cross-curricular projects from Zach Minster
• The Beauty and Joy of Computing
• Exploring Computer Science
  

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