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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

Module 3 — Kingsborough Community College

  • Posted by Aankit Patel (he/him/his) on May 23, 2023 at 4:28 pm

    Background

    • The design process is at the center of our work together this summer.

    Task

    • We invite you to visually represent or model your own design process using some digital tool.
    • You can capture how you design or make anything — whether it’s related to your work as a teacher educator or not.
    • You can share your typical design process, or create a vision for a more idealized or aspirational design process.
    • We think doing this will help you learn a new digital tool, and to help you think intentionally about your design process in advance of our work together this summer.

    To complete this task:

    To visualize your design process, select and use a digital tool  – preferably one that’s new to you or that you want more practice with. You can use one of the ones we recommend below, or locate your own.

    NOTE: Some of these require you to create accounts. If you’d like, take a look at the privacy policies of these tools to see if the benefits of signing up would outweigh the risks for you.

    Stuck?

    • Consult any online tutorials the tool may have on their site
    • Try sketching something on paper first, or do some free-writing to generate ideas about how you generally go about design!
    • Make multiple “rapid prototype” iterations until something feels right.
    • If you’re stuck on something, we encourage you to troubleshoot. Google around, use your colleagues as resources, or go to our help sessions on Mondays!

    To Share:

    • Reply to this thread.
    • Add a brief reflection:
      • Share something new you learned about the tool you used.
      • Did you look at the privacy policy? Did anything stand out there?
      • Share any limitations of the tool that you used that you discovered.
    • You can share your work as a link, or an attachment to this discussion thread
    • If you’d like to embed an image in your post, you’ll have to upload it somewhere first (for example at imgur). Then use the image icon in the discussion forum to link to it.
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  • Joanna (she/her)
    Member
    June 1, 2023 at 1:27 am

    I used Padlet. I used to think of it as a way to organize thoughts … as on post its..but in a virtual space. I learned that you can take Padlet and actually turn it into a PowerPoint-style/like presentation with slides. That was a cool discovery.

    You might not like this answer 🙂 but I did not look at the Privacy policy. I tend to not worry a lot about privacy. I know, I know, I should. But, I also tend not to worry about most things in life. I think things have a way of working themselves out. Now, I do know that not every person is a free spirit and I would look into privacy if I was using this for my students/asking my students to use the app…which I would like to do after this experience. So, I will look into the privacy policy at some point! To be quite honest, I feel like so many of the privacy policies are written in such dry language and also sometimes in a complicated way, where I want to fall asleep reading it or am just confused at what I read. So, I put it off for as long as I can get away with…

    A limitation would be ..that I haven’t found a way to make the Padlet look like the process.  I want these concepts in a circle, showing that the lesson planning process is one that keeps going. Maybe I just haven’t figured out how to do arrows and how to move the post its around. I hope it’s the latter!

    Another feature that I do appreciate is the ability to insert images and memes. I think students could have fun with that and there is a lot of power in images.

    This was a fun activity. It’s always great to learn something new.

     

     

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    Laura Kates
    Participant
    June 26, 2023 at 2:28 pm

    I used Google Slides. Basic I know, but I hadn’t used it much and it’s so useful to be proficient with it.
    Here’s a link to my presentation: “HOW I CREATE AN ASSIGNMENT”: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TZZmPKuzpH34rhBQ_gRf9Jw7Y6FXQJP95YSWiPHIYk0/edit#slide=id.g255451e1937_0_25
    Really, I learned mostly about just the basics of how to format, insert a new slide, etc. Something I struggled with was fear of trying too much because I worried that, if I didn’t like what I’d done, I’d have trouble undoing it. It didn’t seem that easy to undo stuff. I’ll definitely need to experiment with Google Slides more.
    I didn’t read the privacy policy because a) it’s hard to find b) we all just use Google so much. What difference will it really make if I’m familiar with the privacy policy? I know that’s probably how the developers want you to think but, if that’s so, they got me right where they want me!

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