Creativity, Ethics, and Identity in Open-Source Computer Science Education

[ UUID ] 85cf5a29-6aed-4663-bb2d-f0f640e3ff3f

[ Session Name ] Creativity, Ethics, and Identity in Open-Source Computer Science Education [ Primary Space ] Web Literacy [ Secondary Space ] Digital Inclusion

[ Submitter's Name ] Saber Khan [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Processing Foundation [ Submitter's GitHub ] https://github.com/saberkhaniscool

[ Other Facilitator 1's Name ] Jeannie Crowley

[ Other Facilitator 2's Name ] Aankit Patel [ Other Facilitator 2's GitHub ] https://github.com/aankit

What will happen in your session?

Students, educators, researchers, and practitioners need to reimage CC education. Currently, CS education is dominated by industry and adopt its values and goals. To be an educator that empowers students CS education needs to be re-oriented with an ethical perspective, that values creativity, and is inclusive of diverse identities. In this session we will share a vision for this type of CS education and efforts being made to achieve this. Then the participants will be offered different opportunities to contribute to this effort by engaging in a brainstorm and discussion about how to build this project. The organizer of the session will benefit by gaining feedback and global perspectives. Parts of this project started at Mozfest in 2016.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

We are building a movement called #ethicalCS to engage the larger community in a wide-ranging discussion about the ethical implications of computing. p5.js is a project of the Processing foundation, whose mission is to promote software literacy within the visual arts, and visual literacy within technology-related fields — and to make these fields accessible to diverse communities. By sharing the lessons we have learned, gathering feedback on our open-source projects, co-creating new resources, we hope to inspire others to grow creative and ethical computing education in their own communities. We will also facilitate an online community that shares updates, projects, and experiences in the program. This session will thus improve computing education by creating wider global engagement in the movement.

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

Just projector and office supplies

Time needed

90 mins