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Understanding Instructors' Cultivation of Connectedness in K-12 Online Synchronous Culturally Responsive STEM and Computing Education

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Jaemarie Solyst,

Angela B. Stewart,

Amy OganAuthors Info & Claims

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 6, Issue CSCW2

Article No.: 339, Pages 1 - 19

https://doi.org/10.1145/3555759

Published: 11 November 2022 Publication History

Abstract

Culturally responsive STEM and computing initiatives aim to engage and embolden a diverse range of learners, center their identity and experiences in curriculum, and connect learners to each other and their communities. With an abrupt pivot to online learning at the beginning of 2020, more educational experiences have taken place virtually. We ran a virtual synchronous culturally responsive computing camp and saw that establishing the right environment online to support a good sense of connectedness was challenging. To investigate this further, we interviewed eight K-12 instructors of culturally responsive STEM and computing programs. Three themes emerged on defining and cultivating connectedness in learning experiences, the role of equity in supporting community online, and affordances of being online specific to culturally responsive perspectives. We support our thematic findings with vignettes from the camp data. In this study, we address K-12 culturally responsive STEM and computing instructors' beliefs, experiences, and approaches regarding cultivating connectedness online. This work fills a gap in understanding instructor perspectives on building in-program and broader community connections online from a culturally responsive STEM and computing lens.

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Agbo FStephenson BStone JBattestilli LRebelsky SShoop L(2024)Broadening Participation in Adult Education: A Literature Review of Computer Science EducationProceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 110.1145/3626252.3630797(11-17)Online publication date: 7-Mar-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3626252.3630797

Index Terms

Understanding Instructors' Cultivation of Connectedness in K-12 Online Synchronous Culturally Responsive STEM and Computing Education
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. E-learning
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Empirical studies in collaborative and social computing
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Web-based interaction

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Agbo FStephenson BStone JBattestilli LRebelsky SShoop L(2024)Broadening Participation in Adult Education: A Literature Review of Computer Science EducationProceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 110.1145/3626252.3630797(11-17)Online publication date: 7-Mar-2024
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