1. Teaching the Global Impact of Computing
SIGCSE 2017
March 9, 2017 – Seattle, WA
Jennifer Rosato, Bradley Beth, Nigamanth Sridhar, Sean Morris, Jeff Gray

2. AP CSP CED

3. Global Impact Resources
“CS Changes Everything”

4. The “Teach Global Impact” Collaboration
NSF-sponsored EAGER (PI: Julia Bernd, UC Berkeley)
SInRGI: A Shared, Integrated Resource for ‘Global Impact’
Seven projects developing curricula and PD for CSP, sharing ideas and materials
Collected resource at:
Highlights
Searchable database of Global Impact materials from the contributors
Curated "Computing in the News" feed
New lesson plans on impact topics and classroom skills
Seeking teacher-reviewers (stipends available):

5. Jennifer Rosato
Jennifer Rosato is an assistant professor at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, MN and one of the Mobile CS Principles project leaders. She teaches in the computer science and education departments, coordinating the Computer Science Education certificate program.

6. Mobile CSP Reading in the Content Area Programming Global Impact
Pre, during, post
Programming Global Impact
Socially useful apps

7. Reading in the Content Area
Pre
Establish a purpose
Activate background knowledge
Identify text structure
Make predictions
Clarify vocabulary
During
Monitor understanding
Visualize
Summarize
Revisit predictions
Clarify key ideas
Question the text
Post
Purpose met?
Main idea and details
Make comparisons, connect to self and world
Draw conclusions
Analyze

8. Socially Useful Apps Tutorials: Student Projects: I Have a Dream
No Texting While Busy
Student Projects:
Concussion testing
Pre-K learning apps
Tip App for gang activity
Socially Useful:
Identify a problem in your community that can be solved, in part, by an app

9. Bradley Beth
Bradley Beth is the Curriculum Specialist for UTeach CS. He is a former K–12 computer science and mathematics teacher and leads curriculum development for UTeach CS Principles and its previous incarnation, Thriving in Our Digital World.

10. UTeach Computer Science Principles
UTeach CS Principles (adapted from UT’s Thriving in Our Digital World)
March 9, 2017—SIGCSE
Bradley Beth
UTeach Computer Science Principles

11. UTeach Computer Science UTeach CS Principles
The Goal of the UTeach CS Principles Curriculum
The curriculum is built on Thriving in Our Digital World, a high school course launched 6 years ago at UT Austin explicitly designed to engage young women and students from other groups historically underrepresented in computing.
After 4 years of piloting in Texas through dual enrollment, the UTeach Institute is focused on scaling the AP course nationally as UTeach CS Principles.
UTeach Computer Science
UTeach CS Principles

12. UTeach Computer Science UTeach CS Principles
Students collaborate on projects and design creative solutions to real-world problems through scaffolded Project-Based Learning (PBL) pedagogies†;
Focuses less on programming, more on developing deep conceptual understanding & computational thinking skills;
Originally piloted for 4 years with 40+ teachers; now working with the 2016–2017 cohort of 270+ teachers
Developed for high schools with input from high school CS teachers
UTeach Computer Science
UTeach CS Principles
†adapted from materials from the Buck Institute for Education (

13. UTeach Computer Science UTeach CS Principles
UTeach CS Principles—Global Impact
Open-ended projects and assignments focus on evaluating impacts of computing
Most Global Impact assignments:
are rooted in reading, research, and argumentation.
result in written response, interactive presentation, or formal debate artifacts.
All Global Impact assignments are collaborative or assessed through peer feedback.
UTeach Computer Science
UTeach CS Principles

14. UTeach Computer Science
UTeach CS Principles
UTeach Computer Science

15. Sean Morris
Sean Morris is a High School Computer Science teacher in Albany, CA. He has been working with UC Berkeley over the past six or seven years to develop, pilot, and help train teachers to use the Computer Science Principles curriculum, Beauty and Joy of Computing. He has a particular interest in ensuring girls and underrepresented minorities take computer science and uses the teaching of computing impacts as a way to engage these populations.

16. CS In the News: Gun Control
Periscope
Facebook Live
FaceTime
Social Media and it role in Free Speech, activism, and government
Gun Control
NPR: June 2016

17. CS In the News: Gun Control
Should our country
implement laws
banning 3D printed
assault rifles?
What might some
impacts be?
Video: 3D Printing and Guns
Beneficial and Harmful effects of 3D printing?

18. CS in the News: Digital Divide
⇒ How much of
humanity is online?
⇒ How is access limited
to the internet even if a
country or area is “online”?
think women not being allowed to have phones?
not being able to afford phone?
Illiterate (20%) of the world’s populations
Efforts to improve access:
Project Loon
NY Times: 2016

19. Culture, economy, and society?
Peer relationships
Family relationships
Economy
Privacy rights
Environment
Government
National Security

20. Beneficial and Harmful effects
Privacy versus Corporate desire to market
Privacy versus National(Local?) security
Environmental Impacts
Psychological/Emotional Impacts
Learning and Education

21. Mitigate the harmful effects?
Better technology design?
Government Regulation/Legislation?

22. CS in the News + Reading, Videos
video games and violence
privacy in regards to online interaction and social media
encryption
censorship
copyright
work
war
artificial intelligence
robots

23. Nigamanth Sridhar
Nigamanth Sridhar is a professor of computer science at Cleveland State University. He is PI on the Computing in Secondary Schools project, which is training CS Principles teachers in Ohio. Nigamanth is also working with the Cleveland Metro School District in implementing a CSforAll program, bringing CS classes to all high schools in the district by 2019.

24. Nigamanth Sridhar Cleveland State University n.sridhar1@csuohio.edu
Using the Reacting To The Past Pedagogy to Explore Global Impacts of Computing
Nigamanth Sridhar
Cleveland State University

25. Reacting to the Past (RTTP) Pedagogy
Roots in Barnard College
Pedagogy technique that allows students to collaboratively explore a topic using role play and research
Students assume roles, and act out historical events
Students get a chance to explore the topic in context
Individual students have a chance to explore one or two aspects deeply, and then share with rest of class
The class has a chance to get a stronger and broader understanding of the issue/topic at hand

26. Example: Exploring Net Neutrality
This is an important topic of our times, especially in the world of computing
Topic is important and impactful even if someone is not interested in computer science as a subject of study
Can home internet costs vary?
How to businesses leverage the internet?
Heck, we all watch movies and TV primarily on the Internet!
The topic has a variety of viewpoints; very difficult for any student to learn about all of these in any depth in a short period of time (Explore PT is 8 hours of class time)

27. Exploring Net Neutrality using RTTP
Prep work: Students are assigned a number of articles to read (we included 20+ sources)
Not everyone reads all articles; no time to do that
Prep work: Students are assigned roles (FCC, Amazon, Netflix, eBay, etc.)
Students do the reading “in character”
Role Play: Public Statement – before coming to class, students post a public statement about the issue in character (we did this on Piazza)
Role Play: In class, students talk to each other in character
Lobbyists talking to congresspeople; lawyer making argument in front of court
Role Play: Final Statement – Students react in character to learning about alternate viewpoints; again post to Piazza

28. Panel Questions
Do we need to change the way we introduce the Global Impact of CS across classrooms with very different enrollment demographics (e.g., at an all girls school, or other high-URM percentage)?
How does the introduction of CS Global Impact change across different grade bands (e.g., K5, middle school, high school)?
What are pacing strategies for introducing ideas of Global Impact across the school year?
How do you unveil the underlying technologies and Big Ideas of CSP when analyzing a computational artifact that is being used to illustrate Global Impact?