Week 9 discussion

I really enjoyed and appreciated reading “Parents as Learning Partners…” as it directly relates to our design project around parent engagement. It hadn’t occurred to me that there might be multiple types of roles parents can play in supporting learning at home. I wonder how intentional the parents in this study were in performing a specific role, or… Read more Week 9 discussion

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: Maker Movement + Innovation

I have always been a fan of the Maker Movement. From a young age, my favorite experiences all involved me actively engaging with a topic– building with legos, creating with paints and scrap materials found around the house. A project that I am currently working on is similar to many referenced in the Peppler and… Read more Week 9: Maker Movement + Innovation

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

Week 9 Response

“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 Discussion - Juan G

This week’s readings were probably my favorite of the entire quarter. They are directly related to what I want to do with my life in the short-medium future. This past summer, I started developing a business plan for an organization that would focus on teaching entrepreneurship, design thinking, and leadership to teenagers in Mexico. The… Read more Week 9 Discussion - Juan G

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