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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

Community of Practice (CoP) 2023-2024

  • Posted by Anthony Wheeler (he/him) on October 5, 2023 at 10:43 am

    By now, folks are likely deep in artifact implementation. Things are likely going well, and also not so well (and that’s okay)!

    🖋️ Post your problems of practice on this forum – anything from tech issues to teaching issues – to help get some conversations about your challenges going.

    🗓️ The community will be invited to respond to your post and CUNY Central will find common issues and host meetups on Fridays 9:30-10:30am on the following Fridays:

    • 10/20/2023
    • 10/27/2023
    • 11/10/2023
    • 11/17/2023
    • Spring dates are pending!

    💡 Some ideas of things to post:

    • Getting ready to teach the use of a tool and you want some guidance/support? Share the tool, describe your course and your students, and your learning goals/activity around computing.
    • Have trouble with a specific aspect of a tool? Can’t figure out how to do something? Share the tool, briefly describe what you are trying to do, and where you are getting stuck – include screenshots if you can!
    • Tried something and it didn’t go well? Tell us what you tried and what your goals were, how your students reacted with some evidence of their reaction, and any reflections, questions, or concerns that are top of mind.

    If there’s a particular Friday (of those above) when you’d be available to talk about your problem of practice, share that in your post too!!

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  • Kristen Lia Hodnett (she/her)
    Member
    November 3, 2023 at 9:44 am

    Kristen Hodnett

    A rose is that we have two well-planned modules that we haven’t used yet, but have motivated us to explore the structure in other courses.

    A bud – not used yet, but excited and ready!

    Eugenia D. Coutavas
    Member
    November 3, 2023 at 9:45 am

    Hunter College

    A thorn:( in actuality b/c I still haven’t been given a class to teach and have been unable to ‘push in’ as I had hoped to do.

    A bud in my mind b/c my artifact has grown based on my digestion of all things CITE this summer and other webinars/workshops on AI I continue to attend.

     

    Aankit Patel (he/him/his)
    Member
    November 3, 2023 at 9:47 am

    Oh this resonates with a problem of practice we have centrally which is funders asking us to show impact in clinical placements. What you are describing is one of many of the issues around clinical placement we are seeing across CUNY. Perhaps the next stage of the work should focus on supporting this aspect of the work since seeing things in action in B-12 settings will be important feedback into future curriculum iterations.

    Aankit Patel (he/him/his)
    Member
    November 3, 2023 at 9:49 am

    We’d love to help you think through some of those revisions if its helpful. Fridays at 9:30a we have open CoP/help sessions and happy to jump in to specifics with you then if the time works.

    Casandra Silva Sibilin (she/her/hers)
    Member
    November 3, 2023 at 9:51 am

    🌹: learning from students’ unique insights!

    🧷: finding time to keep bringing in throughout the semester, since it’s spread out

    🐛: spending longer time at beginning exploring student’s experiences & thoughts about the tool before starting out

    Jen Longley (she/her)
    Member
    November 3, 2023 at 9:53 am

    I created an alternative artifact where students look at published data (Zero to Three’s State of Babies Yearbook) and compare national data to what is published about NYS.  The data focuses on 3 critical areas: 1) maternal & child health, 2) family well-being, and 3) access to quality ECE programming.

    Aankit Patel (he/him/his)
    Member
    November 3, 2023 at 9:53 am

    awesome!! It sounds like you may not need the resources, but Sara pointed out a bunch of resources around culturally responsive teaching and learning with Scratch and problem solving with Scratch. They may be useful to you and/or your students 🙂

    Veronica Paredes (she/her/hers)
    Participant
    November 3, 2023 at 10:05 am

    Hello,

    the biggest challenge I’ve faced was that my artifact is in many layers and steps throughout the semester but its taking a bit longer so time constraint and figuring out activities to transition their thinking from one step to the next are my biggest problems.

    finding out which activities I can do with students to get them to connect the dots is my focus now

    Deborah Greenblatt, Ph.D. (she/her)
    Participant
    December 27, 2023 at 5:18 pm

    Hi,
    I am looking for help finding computing skills assessments and tutorial modules for the students in my Computing in Education class. I do not want to spend class time teaching some students to use Microsoft Office when this is usually covered before college. I want to use the class time to focus on more advanced computing skills and computational thinking. I was thinking that students could take the assessments as many times as needed and use the modules/tutorials to work at their own pace asynchronously. I have mostly found programs that have to be purchased.
    Please help! 🙂

    Deborah

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