Star Patterns
The blog of the Constellations Center for Equity in Computing
February 13, 2019
Lien Diaz gives us a peek into why it's important to look on the bright side when it comes to the future of computer science education.
January 24, 2019
Paying attention to your students and colleagues is so important, especially in marginalized communities. Shana White explains her experience and the rewards that come with remembering the little things.
January 17, 2019
Constellations Fellow PK Graff recaps his experience as a guest lecturer in an educational technology course at Georgia Tech. Graff spoke with undergraduate students about making educational technology equitable.
January 10, 2019
It's easy to overlook the battles that students are facing outside of the classroom. Constellations Fellow, Terry Foster, gives us a good reminder on why it's important to keep those hardships in mind.
December 20, 2018
Constellations fellow Shana reminds us that creating a humanizing, safe classroom is not only possible, but necessary.
November 2, 2018
In the third and final part of her series, Changing Perspectives, Lien Diaz dives into the data of the current computer science education landscape and what we can do to change it.
October 26, 2018
As a veteran educator, I’ve gotten used to fielding questions like, “Why does this matter? When will I ever use this in the real world?”. When I was a health and physical education teacher, answers to these questions were easy...
October 15, 2018
For computer science students, the algorithmic or computational method of thinking is often completely different from their previous academic conditioning. Students have been “programmed” to learn in a volatile way: get the knowledge, retain it, dump it on a test, and repeat, retaining very little practical knowledge once the mind dump has occurred.
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