Tag: equity

Week 9 Response

by on March 2, 2016 11:25 pm
“Stuck in the Shallow End (2008) reveals how these beliefs about a narrow strata of students having “high potential” in computer science is laden with racial, gender, socioeconomic biases and plays out in schools through tracking, course assignments, course availability, and instructional resources [12]. As explained by educational researcher Carol Dweck, this type of evaluation… Read more Week 9 Response

Week 9 Thu Ngo

by on March 2, 2016 2:21 pm
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

Week 5 Post - For whom and In What Context

by on February 1, 2016 1:41 pm
What is most interesting about the Squire reading was the line: “As videogames mature as a medium, the question becomes not whether they will be used for learning but for whom and in what contexts” (p. 27). The ‘for whom’ part raises a lot of questions around equity. Who will have access to the latest and greatest game… Read more Week 5 Post - For whom and In What Context