S3xE11: Critically Conscious Computing

The CS-Ed Podcast

This episode features Amy Ko et al.'s online book Critically Conscious Computing: Methods for Secondary Education. We discuss with Amy what is in the book, who the book is for, and how educators can use the book in their own teaching. The book focuses on contextualizing the history of computer science and how that history shows that computing is not neutral. In addition, it provides unit sketches to help teachers bring in more design critical conscious discussion into how they teach CS that will hopefully help all of our students better understand how computing affects our world. See the transcript on the website (https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s3ep11_critically_conscious_computing/)