Yasmin meeting June 4

Yasmin meeting June 4

  1. our desire to both advance explanatory theory and advance design splits our attention, which prevents us from excelling at both;      So learning science is not our business. We just want designs that work. 

  2. our emphasis on applying and refining general theories of learning is done at the expense of domain-specific theories of computer science knowledge, and

 3) our use of theory as a critical lens in peer review prevents the publication of designs that may accelerate design progress.

Tedre, Curzon (handbook) Sum up what is CT in a paragraph, but not more. 

Oren Astrachan on disability. 

CHRIS will address Nelson & Ko YASMIN will write the computational thinking piece.  DEB will add in Haraway. 

Who to cite in talking about naming. 

Get this all done by Monday. 

WHERE TO GO FROM HERE…  Jacob & Warschauer; Vee; Tissembaum // computational action. 

From the literacy perspective, 

The CS people feel CS is being turned into airy nothings,  Why should we care about this? It’s marginal and it’s going to go away soon.      Next up data science. 

Worries about career and job readiness. 

It’s happening at all levels in a way that isn’t happening elsewhere. 

What schools don’t teach. 

Vakil was carving out the space of the critical. ICER was carving out the space of criticality. Now the ER piece can 

We have the large march forward of the third crisis: Sputnik; A Nation at Risk; What Schools Don’t Teach.      The wave situates this as something that can’t be ignored. 

It’s time to take stock of where this is going. 

Cognitive; Situated; Critical

PURPOSES OF SCHOOLING: 

The educational research community     You can’t 

Social efficiency Democratic citizenship Social mobility

The waves. 

Genetics is taught in a way that’s so careful.      It’s because genetics is infrastructural… in law! 

It’s all bubbling back up… from critical to situated 

Fraying social fabric     —> social efficiency Freedom and state power           —> democratic citizenship Equity and opportunity                           —> social mobility