This is What Diversity Looks Like: Making CS Curriculum Culturally Relevant for Spanish-speaking Communities
February 2019
Exploring Computer Science (ECS) [1] spawned from the need to provide access to Computer Science to everyone in the US. The success and commitment to equity and diversity of the ECS curriculum in Latina/o communities inspired an interdisciplinary group of educators from the University of Puerto Rico to tackle the lack of K-12 CSE on the island. This group recognized the need to implode the self-perception of Latinas (os) as being foreign to computing [2] by educating them about Computer Science. Teachers were identified as the catalyst change agents to transform Puerto Ricans students into contributors and creators of technology through computing. The intended audience for this panel consists of practitioners and creators of curriculum looking for creative strategies to engage students from diverse cultural backgrounds in computing using their native language.
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Joseph Carroll-Miranda, Patricia Ordonez, Edusmildo Orozco, Milagros Bravo, Michelle Borrero, Luis Lopez, Gerriann Houser, Eliud Gerena, Dale Reed, Brenda Santiago, Agustin Corchado, and Andreshka Santana. This is what diversity looks like: Making CS culturally relevant for Spanish-speaking communities. In Proceedings of the 50th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pages 647–8. Association for Computing Machinery, March 2019. Minneapolis, MN. https://doi.org/10.1145/3287324.3287339.
