Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Addressing Local Environmental Issues from Communities to Classrooms

• In Event: Research Poster Session

Session Submission Type: Research Poster

Summary

The university research team and teachers across multiple school districts across Southern California are engaged in research-practice partnerships to co-design a computer science curriculum (IMPACT), taught in an interactive coding language, Scratch. The IMPACT curriculum integrates computational thinking, community-based environmental literacy, and data literacy for elementary school students, particularly for Latinx multilingual students.

Sub Unit

• NAAEE Research Symposium

Presenter

• Victoria Nguyen, UC Irvine

Non-Attending Contributors

• Clare Baek, Co-Principal Investigator

• Mark Warschauer, Principal Investigator