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Computing Integrated Teacher Education (CITE) @ CUNY
Computing Integrated Teacher Education is a four-year initiative to support CUNY faculty at all ranks to integrate state standards aligned computing content and pedagogy into required education courses, field work and student teaching. Supported by public funding from the New York City Department of Education (NYC DOE) Computer Science for All (CS4All) program and private funding from the Robin Hood Learning + Technology Fund, the initiative will focus on building on and complementing the success of NYCDOE CS4All and pilots to integrate computational thinking at Queens College, Hunter College and Hostos Community College.
The initiative focuses on:
– Supporting institutional change in teacher education programs
– Building faculty computing pedagogical content knowledge through the lens of culturally response-sustaining education
– Supporting faculty research in equitable computing education, inclusive STEM pedagogies, and effects on their students’ instructional practices
Admins:
Module 3 – BMCC
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Wow. This was an adventure. I feel a bit like Alice…I’ve spent the day falling down rabbit holes and finding strange new worlds.
I decided to stretch myself by using a new technology. I use PowerPoint and Google Slides all the time, and I am somewhat familiar with Padlet. Miro and Loopy were too modular in their approach to the design process, so I decided to go with Jamboard. I spent some time playing and discovering what it can (and can’t) do.
Jamboard is a part of the Google universe, which is both a blessing and (from a privacy standpoint) a curse. It is SO simple to use websites when they just ask you to sign in with your gmail account. I already have seemingly hundreds of different passwords that I keep track of with a password keeper. But now I sign into a lot of sites using my gmail account.
From a user perspective, I felt a little creatively constrained by Jamboard. I kept wanting to change things that couldn’t be changed. I wanted more choices for colors of sticky notes and circles (where is purple, people???). I wanted to be able to crop my photographs inside the app, so that I could more easily work the text around the images. I wanted more font choices (if they are available, I couldn’t find them…only font sizes). I wanted to be able to change how the text looked inside the sticky notes. I wanted to have shapes (e.g., arrows) to work with, in addition to the drawing tool. Still, I’m pretty happy with the result.
I ended up with 10 slides. I used my own photographs as backgrounds or images in most of the slides, to give visual support to what I was trying to convey.
My Jamboard presentation is twofold:
I model the design process I used to create new learning experiences for my curriculum class when CUNY moved into online teaching during the first months of the pandemic. The class centers the creative arts, and it is a very experiential, hands-on course. Needless to say, it was quite a learning curve.
I’ve also been thinking a lot about the artifact that my colleague and I want to add to this course, so I included specific information about that, as well.
The opening slide shows the flow of the design process. The photo that I used on this slide illustrates the arduous nature of the process. For me, it is a bit like hiking in the mountains of the southwest. It’s strenuous, and the ground can be slippery, but the journey and the views are worth it.
The slides that follow unpack each part of the design process. Here goes, and I hope the link works:
https://jamboard.google.com/d/1xeSL7EcYQlFffnOSjvwfp2J16YAEqn4HatJotn-ceQY/edit?usp=sharing
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