CIC: Semester 2, Week 4: Inclusion

The topic for this week is inclusion and diversity in computer science education. We will study movements to diversify the computing workforce, to decolonise the curriculum, and to include all learners and consider why this is important. 

1. Read the Notable Highlights of the NCWIT Status of Women in Computing report. This gives a picture of gender equality in computer science in the US. (If you want the latest figures, see https://ncwit.org/resource/scorecard/) What do you think the statistics would look like in your home country? Check. Were you right?
2. Explore the interactive guidelines for Universal Design for Learning in CS Education. Pick one of the topics and summarise it on the discussion board. Give an example of how you could put this guideline into practice in your educational materials.
3. Collaborate with another student to create a poster or a short video about a forgotten superstar of computer science. You can look at https://teachinglondoncomputing.org/celebrating-diversity-in-computing/ to give you ideas. Feel free to work with an AI artist such as DALLE-2.
   1. EITHER pick one of the people who features in one of the Teach London Computing diversity posters and find out more about them. Create a short video describing their work, and why it is important.
   2. OR choose a computer scientist who has overcome adversity to excel in their field. Make a poster about their achievements. (They can be contemporary or historical).
   3. Put your work on the discussion board for the other students to see.
   4. Bring your work from this week to the class to share with the other students.