The topic for this week is inclusion and diversity in computer science education. We will study movements to diversify the computing workforce, and to decolonise the curriculum, and consider why this is important.
- Read this article (p67-69 of Hello World magazine, issue 16) about decolonising the CS curriculum.
- Read the executive summary 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/bythenumbers/) What do you think the statistics would look like in your home country? Check. Were you right?
- Watch some of the British Sign Language videos on Computing, Data Science or Cyber security, for example processor and buses videos. Do they look symbolically and conceptually as you would expect?
https://www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/BSL/computinghome.html Computing Science
https://www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/BSL/datahome.html Data Science
https://www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/BSL/cyberhome.html Cyber Security - Collaborate with another student to create a poster or a short video about a forgotten superstar of computer science. If you don’t know anyone in the class, why not go to the Discord Server to find someone to work with (see Learn for the link). 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- Put your work on your learning log, or Piazza for the other students to see.
- Comment on the work of the other students on their learning log or Piazza.
- Bring your work from this week to the live tutorial to share with the other students.