Culturally Responsive Computing (CRC)

Overview
Culturally responsive computing (CRC) is defined as, “a strategy constructed to engage culturally and linguistically diverse youth, concerned with empowerment, transformation, validation, comprehension, multidimensionality and emancipation.” 

CRC proposes five tenets: 

(1) All students are capable of digital innovation or creating and creating with digital tools, not just using them.

(2) The learning context supports transformational use of technology, which changes the way students understand and interact with the world, supporting increased agency and and self-efficacy. 

(3) Learning about one’s self along various intersecting sociocultural lines allows for technical innovation by supporting identity development as a master of technology. 

(4) Technology should be a vehicle by which students reflect and demonstrate understanding of their intersectional identities, supporting their growth and development of their social agency and power of self-determination.

(5) Barometers for technological success should consider who creates, for whom, and to what ends rather than who endures socially and culturally irrelevant curriculum (Scott, Sheridan, and Clark, 2015) 

CRC based in culturally responsive teaching or pedagogy (CRP). Culturally responsive pedagogy is a student-centered way of teaching that uses students' diverse cultural knowledge, prior experiences, frames of reference, and performance as assets to make learning activities relevant, meaningful, and empowering (Gay, 2010). Culturally responsive pedagogy is enacted through instructional techniques, instructional materials, affective and intellectual student-teacher relationships, classroom climate, and developing self-awareness that supports mutual learning of students and teachers..  

Purpose

CS Pathways teachers and students

• Learn to code; coding is a skill that citizens can and should learn to some extent

• Connect computing and computer science to their interests, communities, and ways of knowing.

• Use computer science to communicate ideas and make meaningful objects

• Advocate for teaching Computer Science in schools as part of providing socially just educational opportunities and outcomes.

  • https://landscape.csteachers.org/ 

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Resource - Unit 1 Module 3 CRC Prompt-Hour of Code 

Resource -  Massachusetts Civics Guidance

Overview
Culturally responsive computing

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