BPC-DP: DEPICT - Engaging a Diverse Student Population in Computational Thinking through Creative Writing and Performances

年轻人往往很难将计算机科学的工作与帮助社会联系起来，许多人表示，这是一个对他们的职业选择非常重要的目标。该项目旨在通过在语言和艺术占主导地位的高中课程中注入计算机科学概念，扩大计算机对那些可能不认为自己属于技术领域的学生的吸引力。通过强调学习计算机就像学习一门新语言或在技术性和更非正式的演讲之间进行转换一样，该项目团队将使所需的技能集与新墨西哥州南部两所高中的双语学生的技能保持一致。该项目将创造一系列机会，让学生在校内外都能获得计算体验，重点是招收女性和拉美裔学生。同时，该项目将为教师提供专业发展机会，让他们更好地了解如何利用计算概念和技能来教授创意学科。DESCRICE(通过创造性写作发现计算思维)调查了一种新的干预措施，以扩大女性和西班牙裔高中生对计算机的参与。《描绘》的新奇之处在于两个方面。首先，DESCRATE建立在一个过去没有被深度开发的领域，即创造性写作和电影/戏剧制作的结合。这一领域的吸引力来自于它在学生中的受欢迎程度，特别是女性和西班牙裔，以及学生在相应课程中表现出的高度自我效能感。第二个新颖性来自于将这个创造性领域作为CT注入的目标--即，我们使用CT作为一种方法论来教授创造性领域，认为CT的相关概念已经存在于该领域，它们只是需要外推。这使我们能够通过学习创造性领域逐步建立CT能力，利用学生在创造性领域的自我效能来建立CT自我效能感。DESCRICE创建了一个渠道，为学生准备AP CS原理考试做准备，并为他们提供了比其他进入更正式CS课程的学生更多的“准备优势”。高中教师是Describe的一部分，他们将获得专业发展和课堂上的帮助，以获得新课程材料的所有权--实现将持续并随着时间的推移而发展的变革性影响。Description在新墨西哥州南部的两所不同的高中(一所传统的农村学校和一所现代的城市学校)运营。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。

Often youth have a difficult time connecting the work of computer science with helping society, a goal that many report as very important for their career choices. This project aims to broaden the appeal of computing to students who may not consider themselves as belonging in a technical field by infusing computer science concepts into language and arts-dominant high school courses. By highlighting the ways in which learning computing is like learning a new language or translating between technical and more informal speech, the project team will align the skill sets needed to those of the bilingual population of two southern New Mexico high schools. The project will build a sequence of opportunities to engage students in computing experiences both in and out of school, with a focus on recruiting women and Hispanic students. At the same time, the project will provide professional development opportunities for teachers to better understand how to leverage computing concepts and skills to teach creative subjects. DEPICT (Discover Computational Thinking through Creative Writing) investigates a novel intervention to broaden participation to computing of women and Hispanic high school students. The novelty of DEPICT lies in two aspects. First, DEPICT builds on an area that has not been deeply exploited in the past, i.e., the combination of creative writing and production of movies/plays. The appeal of this area comes from its popularity among students, especially women and Hispanic, and the high level of self-efficacy demonstrated by students in the corresponding courses. The second novelty comes from the use of this creative domain as a target for the infusion of CT - i.e., we use CT as a methodology to teach the creative domain, contending that relevant concepts of CT are already present in the domain, and they simply need to be extrapolated. This allows us to progressively build CT competency through the learning of the creative domain, leveraging the students' self-efficacy in the creative domain to build self-efficacy in CT. DEPICT creates a pipeline to prepare students for the AP CS Principles test and offers them a "preparation edge" over other students entering more formal CS courses. High school teachers are part of DEPICT and they will be provided with professional development and in-class help to gain ownership of the new course materials - enabling a transformative impact that will sustain and grow over time. DEPICT operates in two diverse high schools (a traditional rural school and a modern urban school) in southern New Mexico.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.