CS-LISTEN: Youth Taking Action! Dismantling Historical Practices in Computer Science

• In Event: Trends and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence in Education

Abstract

Computer science (CS) has been advanced by motivations that do not align with educational improvements and harm students of color. Shifting power to students through Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) provides a format to have students in the driver’s seat and investigate inequities in CS education (CSe). This paper discusses student perspectives of participating in a YPAR National Science Foundation grant (#1923406) known as CS-LISTEN that positions high schoolers as co-researchers (SCRs) alongside teachers, administrators, and researchers. This paper examines student focus group interview data using culturally responsive-sustaining CSe pedagogy components to highlight student voice, perspectives of CS, and cultural assets in research. This work contributes to the reimagining of how CSe could look when centering students’ role as changemakers.

Authors

• Kristin Tenney, San Diego State U. & UC San Diego

• Simone DiMatteo, University of California - San Diego

• Annie Pham, University of California - San Diego

• Minhtuyen Mai, University of California - San Diego

• Susan S. Yonezawa, University of California - San Diego

• Kirk D. Rogers, San Bernardino Valley College

• Jordan J. Harrison, University of California - San Diego

• Art Lopez, University of California - San Diego

• Beth Simon, University of California - San Diego