Lets Talk Code: Broadening Computing Education among Native Americans by Blending Code with Nature, Art and Culture

让我们谈谈代码：通过将代码与自然、艺术和文化相融合，扩大美洲原住民的计算机教育

• 批准号: 2031505
• 负责人: Peter Romine
• 金额: $ 99.13万
• 依托单位: Navajo Technical University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-03-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2031505&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Lets; Talk; Code; Broadening; Computing

Navajo Technical University leads Project Let’s Talk Code to investigate a novel approach to introduce Computer Science (CS) to high school students in the Navajo Nation (NN) tribal region in Arizona and New Mexico. Its name is rooted in the contributions and legacy of the Navajo Code Talkers, who played a pivotal role in the Allied forces’ victory in World War II. Just like the Navajo Code Talkers engineered their own code and created a new way of communicating through the Navajo language, these students will learn to do the same through a co-developed culturally rooted curriculum that is contextualized in real-world problem-solving activities that are intimately connected to the Navajo culture. The goal of the project is to improve students’ computational skills with a focus on preparing them to succeed in the Advance Placement (AP) computer science courses and motivate them to enroll in CS degrees. The project aims to help math, science and art teachers from NN high schools develop CS based projects in their existing courses and provide mentorship and guidance towards offering AP Computer Science Principles (CSP) courses in the subsequent years. The program will include a two-week professional development program and follow-up activities. Native Americans (NA) have historically been the most underrepresented population when it comes to participating in STEM and computing careers. The Navajo are one of the largest NA groups in the country and understanding the barriers and developing solutions to increase their participation will have far reaching consequences on informing the research and practice on how computing can be taught at NA tribal high schools.Project Let’s Talk Code (LTC) is a Research Practitioner Partnership (RPP) that investigates a novel approach to introduce Computer Science (CS) to high school students in the Navajo Nation (NN) tribal region in Arizona and New Mexico. The goal of the RPP is to improve students’ computational skills with a focus on preparing them to succeed in the Advance Placement (AP) computer science courses and motivate them to enroll in CS degrees. The project aims to help math, science and art teachers from NN high schools develop CS based projects in their existing courses and provide mentorship and guidance towards offering AP Computer Science Principles (CSP) courses in the subsequent years. The program will include a two-week professional development program and follow-up activities. Its framework builds on a widely used AP computer science principles (CSP) curriculum developed by Code.org and stays true to the principles of writing, editing, compiling and executing code, while providing additional meaning via culturally rooted real-world examples that are contextualized in the Navajo culture. The project team will engage tribal community stakeholders, administrators, teachers and regional colleges in the design and development of the curriculum and its broader application in the NN community. The RPP is structured as an iterative evidence-based design project where the teachers (practitioners) work with a multi-institutional team of researchers and CS educators to improve the capacity building needs of its partners (high schools and regional colleges). It includes a mixed-methods analysis of qualitative and quantitative data collected by offering professional development training sessions, after school programs and peer-to-peer mentoring. Frequent and timely analysis feeds into the co-creation and co-design of the curriculum during the duration of the project. Capacity building activities during the project such as the creation of communities of practices will ensure long term sustainability.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.

纳瓦霍技术大学领导了“让我们谈谈代码”项目，以研究一种新的方法，向亚利桑那州和新墨西哥州纳瓦霍民族（NN）部落地区的高中生介绍计算机科学（CS）。它的名字源于纳瓦霍语者的贡献和遗产，他们在第二次世界大战盟军的胜利中发挥了关键作用。就像纳瓦霍语者设计自己的代码并通过纳瓦霍语创造了一种新的沟通方式一样，这些学生将学习通过共同开发的文化根源课程来做同样的事情，该课程在现实世界的背景下解决问题与纳瓦霍文化密切相关的活动。该项目的目标是提高学生的计算技能，重点是让他们在提前安置（AP）计算机科学课程中取得成功，并激励他们攻读CS学位。该项目旨在帮助NN高中的数学，科学和艺术教师在现有课程中开发基于CS的项目，并为随后几年提供AP计算机科学原理（CSP）课程提供指导和指导。该计划将包括为期两周的专业发展计划和后续活动。 美国原住民（NA）在参与STEM和计算职业方面历来是代表性最低的人口。纳瓦霍人是美国最大的NA群体之一，了解这些障碍并制定解决方案以增加他们的参与将对NA部落高中如何教授计算的研究和实践产生深远的影响。项目Let's Talk Code（LTC）是一个研究实践者伙伴关系（RPP），旨在研究一种新的方法来引入计算机科学（CS）。给亚利桑那州和新墨西哥州纳瓦霍部落地区的高中生。RPP的目标是提高学生的计算技能，重点是帮助他们在预修课程（AP）计算机科学课程中取得成功，并激励他们报读计算机科学学位。该项目旨在帮助NN高中的数学，科学和艺术教师在现有课程中开发基于CS的项目，并为随后几年提供AP计算机科学原理（CSP）课程提供指导和指导。该计划将包括为期两周的专业发展计划和后续活动。 它的框架建立在由Code.org开发的广泛使用的AP计算机科学原理（CSP）课程的基础上，并忠实于编写，编辑，编译和执行代码的原则，同时通过在纳瓦霍文化背景下的文化根源的现实世界的例子提供额外的意义。该项目小组将使部落社区利益相关者，管理人员，教师和区域学院参与课程的设计和开发及其在NN社区的更广泛应用。RPP是一个迭代的循证设计项目，教师（从业者）与研究人员和CS教育工作者的多机构团队合作，以提高其合作伙伴（高中和地区学院）的能力建设需求。它包括通过提供专业发展培训课程，课后课程和同行指导收集的定性和定量数据的混合方法分析。在项目期间，频繁和及时的分析有助于共同创建和共同设计课程。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。