Equitable Computer Science for All Learning Ecosystems: Developing Underserved Students' Computational Making Literacies Through Community-Embedded Out of School Time Programming

国家科学基金会的CSFall倡议的核心目标是创建基础设施、途径和激励措施，发展生态系统，以支持和激励所有年轻人精通计算机并追求与计算机科学相关的学位和职业。这项提案提出了扩展CSfor All基础设施的理由，通过提出两个问题，将课外时间(OST)学习项目整合到现有的CSfor All资助金中：我们如何才能营造一个社区学习环境，承认、支持和促进计算能力，将其作为导师、青年和家庭所希望的和可获得的社会资本形式？这些社区层面的联系对青年计算学习机会、参与、社会网络、知识和理解有何影响？在埃文斯顿，西北大学、学区和埃文斯顿基督教青年会之间的合作将通过设计和运营一个基于社区的计算制作OST中心来共同理解和回答这些问题，该中心提供学习活动和同伴社区，为学生、关爱的成年人、这一建议旨在利用一个独特的机会--在一个种族和社会经济多元化的社区中积极参与解决他们日益扩大的成绩差距--推出1：1中等年级表倡议--实施基于社区的计算OST中心，并重新想象旨在支持青年和有爱心的成年人(家长和导师)的社区嵌入OST的方法如何能够激发年轻人参与计算。具体地说，这项提议旨在创建一个学习社区，使用计算思维指导的设计过程来激励和支持学生系统地创建交互对象，这些交互对象需要整合编码、数字制造和视觉设计知识，以产生美学上强大的和具有社会意识的解决方案，以应对学生和社区定义的设计挑战。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

At its core, the National Science Foundation's CSforAll initiative has the goal of creating theinfrastructure, pathways, and incentives that develop ecosystems for supporting and motivating all youthto become computationally literate and pursue computer science-related degrees and careers. Thisproposal makes a case for the extension of the CSforAll infrastructure to include the integration of out-of-school time (OST) learning projects into existing CSforAll funded grants by asking two questions: Howcan we foster a community learning environment that recognizes, supports, and promotes computationalliteracies as a desirable and accessible form of social capital by mentors, youth, and families? And howdo these community-level connections impact youth computational making learning opportunities,participation, social networks, knowledge, and understanding? In Evanston, a partnership betweenNorthwestern University, the district, and the Evanston YMCA will work together to understand and answer thesequestions by designing and operating a community-based computational making OST hub that providesthe learning activities and peer community needed to create an inviting and relevant environment forstudents, caring adults, and educators to reorient their perception towards computer science-relatedcareers as desirable and achievable for youth in the community.This proposal seeks to take advantage of a unique opportunity - the launch of a 1:1 middle grades tabletinitiative in a racially and socioeconomically diverse community actively engaged in addressing theirexpanding achievement gap - to implement a community-based computational making OST hub andreimagine how a community-embedded approach to OST designed to support youth and caring adults(parents and mentors) can ignite youths' computational making participation. Specifically, this proposalseeks to create a learning community that uses the computational thinking guided design process tomotivate and support students in the systemic creation of interactive objects that require theintegration of coding, digital fabrication, and visual design literacies to produce aesthetically powerfuland socially conscious solutions to student and community defined design challenges.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.