User:Parlierm

2023 Summer Milestones

• Read and analyze the Compact Report and beginnings of the Wisconsin Landscape Report.
• Become more familiar with the CS Fundamentals and ECS Curricula
• Read over ECS Curricula and find creative ways to make it more inclusive and culturally responsive.
• Synthesize toolkit information from the ECEP Website.
• Create a condensed/focused list of information and write-ups needed for the Wisconsin ECEP Alliance Landscape Report.
• Look into the formatting tool for the Landscape Report and begin placing pieces of the Landscape Report into the format suggested by ECEP.
• Determine what additional information and data is needed to complete the Wisconsin Landscape Report and begin acquiring the additional data.

2023 Week 1: (May 30th 2023-June 2nd 2023)

Tuesday (5/30)

• Met with Dr. Praveen about logistics and meeting other students involved in the REU.
• Met with Dr. Brylow and other REU students on my specific team for the summer, learning about the various projects on hand.
• Worked with IT to get accounts set up for the summer.
• Looked at Landscape reports for California and its formatting, Dashboard for Alabama, and basic research on the ECEP.
  • ECEP Landscape Reports: https://ecepalliance.org/resources/toolkits-guides/landscape-reports/
  • Data Dashboards: https://ecepalliance.org/cs-data/state-data-dashboards/
  • ECEP Article Joining States: https://ecepalliance.org/news/2023/04/25/ecep-welcomes-seven-new-states/
• Worked through some of the Pre-School CS Fundamentals on Code.org
  • CS Fundamentals Website: https://code.org/educate/csf

Wednesday (5/31)

• Read up on, watched videos, and took notes about CS terminology, learning about what the broader idea of the field really is.
• Took notes on the visualizations used in the Alabama dashboard from ECEP and glanced at the other states.
• Attended the all-group meeting with Dr. Brylow about research techniques and helpful tips and tricks for getting started/researching/digging deeper.
• Met with research team for CS Education and determined which projects we were going to be taking on, determining next steps.
  • I'll be gathering and synthesizing factors of other states' Landscape Reports, seeing what does and doesn't work, and then comparing that data to what we have in Wisconsin.
  • Additionally, I was given many articles to get me going on my research of CS Education.
• I combed through the Kapor Center Article on Culturally Responsive Teaching in Computer Science, taking notes on key pieces of information and connecting what was written to previous knowledge of CRT.
  • Kapor Center Article: https://www.kaporcenter.org/culturally-responsive-sustaining-computer-science-education-a-framework/

Thursday(6/1)

• Wrote up notes and found links from Days 1 and 2 and sent emails to schedule a meeting for today with team members who also read the Kapor Center article.
• Met with Sujeeth to talk about ways I can help conduct research this summer, potential research projects and lists of things to look into.
• Wrote up my milestone checklist with preliminary research on the topics.
• Created/updated my Wiki page for the rest of the summer.
• Began thinking about ways to organize information Sujeeth is looking for.

Friday(6/2)

• I began the RCR Training, making it through the first session and then some, and finishing up the training over the weekend.
• Met with Dr. Brylow to discuss the ITISCE Article entitled "Intercultural Computer Science Education" and spoke about goals for the summer (among various CSE topics).
  • Link to ITISCE Article: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2591708.2591744
• Started doing some research on the algorithms presented in the article chosen, and started looking up the CSE Teacher Resource, the Adafruit Circuit Playground.

2023 Week 2: (June 5th 2023-June 9th 2023)

Monday (6/5)

• Attended the all-group RCR Training with Dr. Brylow all morning and afternoon.
• Researched and took notes on the "Intercultural Computer Science Education" article, and created a presentation to present the findings tomorrow to my small research group.

Tuesday (6/6)

• Finalized research presentation for "Intercultural Computer Science Education" article.
• Met with other REU students and checked in on how their work was progressing.
• Presented the "Intercultural Computer Science Education" article.
• Researched the Adafruit Circuit Playground to present about tomorrow as as CSE Teacher Resource.

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2023 Week 8: (July 17th 2023-July 21st 2022)

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2023 Week 9: (July 24th 2023-July 28th 2023)

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2023 Week 10: (July 31st 2023-August 4th 2023)

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