Week |Date 

Theme 

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Submit on Canvas by 4:59pm day of seminar

Tutorial experience

1 | Feb 5

What is CS?

Interest Development Theory in Computing Education: A Framework and Toolkit for Researchers and Designers

Pre-survey

Learning Log: Values

CS Visions, CS Heroes

Communicate About Computing

2 | Feb 12  CS+Feelings

Abstraction in action: K-5 teachers' uses of levels of abstraction, particularly the design level, in teaching programming

LOA Slide: Zig Zag

(Hour of Code)
Learning Log: SEL

I Speak Scratch

(sequencing)

(ELA)

Collaborate Around Computing

3 | Feb 19

CS+Identity

Counter-hegemonic Computing: Toward Computer Science Education for Value Generation and Emancipation

LOA Slide: Code Your Hero

(CS First)

Learning Log: Identity

Animate a Name

(loops)

(Art/Music)

Foster an Inclusive Computing Culture

4 | Feb 26 CS+Stories

Traversing the Gaps: An Afrofuturist Approach to Social Change Through Dreaming in Science Fiction and STEM/Computer Science Education 

LOA Slide: Wakanda Forever

(MakeCode Arcade)

Learning Log: Literacy

Read Like a Gamer

(events)

(Science)

Create Computational Artifacts

5 | Mar 4 CS+Earth

Exploring Student Behavior Using the TIPP+SEE Strategy

LOA Slide: My Cool Penguin

(CS+Data)

Learning Log: Impacts

California Regions

(conditionals)

(Social Studies)

Test and Refine Computational Artifacts

6 | Mar 11 CS+History

Experiences Implementing and Utilizing a Notional Machine in the Classroom

LOA Slide: Area + Perimeter 

(Scratch Parsons)

Learning Log: Turing

High Score

(variables)

(Math)

Recognize and Define Computational Problems

7 | Mar 18

CS+Careers

“You don’t do your hobby as a job”: Stereotypes of Computational Labor and their Implications for CS Education

LOA Slide: Fish Classifier

(code.org)

Learning Log: AI

Teachable Machine

Develop and Use Abstractions

8 | Mar 25 CS+School

Helping teachers make equitable decisions: effects of the TEC Rubric on teachers’ evaluations of a computing curriculum

TEC Lesson Plan

Learning Log: UDL + Standards

Presentations