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Week 9 Discussion

The Margolis article really struck home for me. It states, “this may have been an important ingredient of the “secret sauce” of ECS—passionate, creative teachers who are interested in the problem solving of computer science, with a variety of secondary subject credentials” (64). To me, this is the largest barrier to diversity in CS. The CS… Read more Week 9 Discussion

Week 9

This weeks really gave me a hard look at all the ways I could have been educated in high school and made me wonder if I would have different interests if my school had a very different approach to education. I loved reading about the maker movement and the digital fabrication paper. I can see… Read more Week 9

Week 9 Discussion

The study Parents as Learning Partners in the Development of Technological Fluency resonated strongly with me, as I also grew up with a technology-minded father but was never exposed to CS until college. Throughout my brother and I’s childhood, my dad would spend time teaching my brother programming and web design basics. In an interesting turn… Read more Week 9 Discussion

Week 9 Response

I’m taking Beyond Bits and Atoms with Dr. Blikstein, so I’ve been very immersed in the Maker Movement, teaching coding to kids, and building animals with the laser cutter this quarter. As an assignment for that course, I visited a maker space at Barron Park Elementary School, part of the PAUSD. Smita Kolhatkar, the head of… Read more Week 9 Response

I didn't know what engineering was...

When I was in high school I had a vague idea of what an engineer did. They built things. Usually with their hands I thought. Bridges and buildings and stuff. I didn’t think I wanted to be an engineer. I wanted to be a math major. My best friend wanted to be a chemistry major.… Read more I didn't know what engineering was...

Swinging the opposite direction

I think that the Maker movmenet has great potential to revolutionize the way in which we teach science and engineering. I really interesting expression of it’s absence in highschools right now is the number of Freshman who come into Stanford every year saying they want to be physics majors. In highschools, often the closest thing… Read more Swinging the opposite direction

Week 9 Thu Ngo

The Margolis reading was an exciting read for me as it mentioned the flowering of computer science as a field of study. It reminded me of when CS was a very unpopular and even stigmatized field. It was also exciting to see that a program such as ECS was in place and that it was… Read more Week 9 Thu Ngo

DQC Week 9

The Maker Movement has been growing in popularity in recent years. The wide ranging, nearly all encompassing nature of activities in the Maker Movement allow for a diverse group of participants. Makers are creators and builders, they use the materials around them to bring ideas to life. Activities in the Maker Movement might include building… Read more DQC Week 9

Week 8 discussion

As our group starts digging into the topic of parent engagement, one of our biggest question is about the awareness and knowledge that parents have about the impact that their actions have on their kids. The Crowley research paper highlights an action by parents that unintentionally contributes to a gender gap. I’m sure if you explained… Read more Week 8 discussion

Crowley- Girls and Science

I found this article to be incredibly interesting. Particularly because it brought me back to a video I viewed a couple of years ago: https://youtu.be/XP3cyRRAfX0. The lack of encouragement and development girls receive around STEM at a young age is incredibly disheartening. I think we are moving towards attempting to create tools to give girls access to… Read more Crowley- Girls and Science