Discussion with Paulo about future of Making With Code

People: Paulo, Diana, Jacob

• MWC Launch
• MWC relationship
• ISF

Paulo: Multiple pieces here.

• Chris needs to get tenure, may need to publish independently
• Does ISF still need Chris’s support for program?

Jacob:

• Paulo proposes an advisory board for the project
• give leeway for the project
  • Chris working on a teacher prep program
  • Sobral
  • ISF
  • Jacob’s context is changing.

Paulo: Maybe an advisory board is too formal.

• In academia, naming projects has a lot of power.

Which parts are we talking about?

• Curriuclum
• Pedagogy
• Systems
• Brand

What kind of collaboration are we looking for?

• Are we accountable to each other?
• Does control transfer to a higher-level org?
• Are there inclusion criteria?

What are the high-level values?

Paulo: One thing we would like to do is the work in Sobral. It’s different enough that it’s adapted to a very different context. Short hours, middle school, different context. Developing a K-8 curriculum for Brazil.

• It helps to bring a brand.

What’s more interesting to me is the intellectual conversation. A lot of Constructionism priorities are being lots in the cacophony of CS education.

• ECS (monolith)
• NetLogo (platform)
• P5 js
• Research platform

How do we assert our own ownership over this, while holding on to collaboration?

Jacob: Collect the assets that have been created so far, publish them in a more static way, and then be able to cite that.

Paulo: With Logo and Scratch, people became emperors of their own kingdoms. We could do better.

Snapshot: Create a jumping-off point.

• A paper summarizing what we’ve done
• A practitioner-facing website
• A SIGCSE paper

Launch

Potentially, we could do an informal get-together