24: Scratch Encore: The Design + Pilot of a Culturally relevant Intermediate Scratch | #CSK8 Podcast

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In this episode I unpack Franklin et al.’s (2020) publication titled “Scratch Encore: The design and pilot of a culturally-relevant intermediate Scratch curriculum,” which introduces the Scratch Encore curriculum and provides a quick summary of positive feedback from the teachers who used the curriculum during a pilot year.

Article
Franklin, D., Weintrop, D., Palmer, J., Coenraad, M., Cobian, M., Beck, K., Rasmussen, A., Krause, S., White, M., Anaya, M., & Crenshaw, Z. (2020). Scratch Encore: The Design and Pilot of a Culturally-Relevant Intermediate Scratch Curriculum. In Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 794–800. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3328778.3366912

Abstract
“While several introductory computer science curricula exist for children in K-8, there are few options that go beyond sequence, loops, and basic conditionals. The goal of this project is to not only fill this gap with a high-quality curriculum supported by complete instructional materials, but to also do so with an equity-balanced curriculum. That is, a curriculum that values advancing equity equally with student learning outcomes. In this paper, we introduce barriers to equity in public school classrooms, pedagogical approaches to culturally-relevant curricula, and how our Scratch Encore curriculum is designed to support equity-balanced learning. Finally, we present results of our pilot year, including early evidence of students taking advantage of the culturally-relevant design aspects.”

Author Keywords
Computational thinking, Scratch, K-12 education, culturally-relevant instruction

My One Sentence Summary
This paper introduces the Scratch Encore curriculum and provides a quick summary of positive feedback from the teachers who used the curriculum during a pilot year.

Some Of My Lingering Questions/Thoughts
Who gets to determine what kids consider as part of their culture or identities?

In what ways might educators and curriculum developers unintentionally essentialize students by assuming identification with a culture?

Where is the line between culturally-relevant curricula and culturally-specific curricula?

How might CS educators and curriculum developers prevent efforts in culturally-relevant experiences from coming across as pandering to youth culture?

I find it interesting that a teacher mentioned "I also like having my students do an old school worksheet, because it helps them to think about what they just learned and I can use them as exit tickets/mini assessments" (p. 798).

In particular, I question if this is focusing on what teachers are more used to/comfortable with, rather than focusing on whether kids enjoy learning through this approach or if they consider it as "busy work."

What didn't teachers like about the curriculum?

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00:00 Intro
00:56 Abstract
01:42 My one sentence summary
01:54 Paper introduction
03:27 Theory and prior work
05:33 Scratch Encore design
07:49 Methods
08:10 Results
09:01 Lingering questions and thoughts
09:05 Who gets to determine what kids consider as part of their culture or identities?
11:17 Where is the line between culturally-relevant curricula and culturally-specific curricula?
12:38 How might CS educators and curriculum developers prevent efforts in culturally-relevant experiences from coming across as pandering to youth culture?
13:21 An interesting teacher quote that got me thinking
14:21 What didn't teachers like about the curriculum?
15:07 Outro

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