Welcome
The submission deadline for the 2024 Illinois Computer Science Summer Teaching Workshop has been extended until April 19th.
The Illinois Computer Science Summer Teaching Workshop brings together college instructors engaged with teaching computer science to discuss best practices, challenge the status quo, propose new directions, and present surprising or preliminary results. Since it began in 2020, the workshop has been a welcoming venue with over 100 participants each year and has accepted most proposals. The 2024 workshop will be held on June 3rd and 4th, with sessions 10–12 and 1–3 pm each day (Central Daylight Time). There is no registration or attendance fee for this free online workshop.
This year’s workshop theme is Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC). The workshop will delve into the topics of creating more pathways into computing and fostering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in computing.
Invited Talks
Doris Espiritu
City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College
Jess Monahan
University of Delaware
Lawrence Angrave
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Olúwakẹ́mi Ọlamudzengi
University of British Columbia
Maya Israel
University of Florida
Joe Politz
University of California, San Diego
Panos Hadjimitsos
Triton College
Schedule
Morning Session: K-12
| Time | Presenter | Talk title |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 AM | Welcome and Opening Remarks | |
| 10:15 AM | Invited talk: Maya Israel | Approaches to teacher professional development to support learners with disabilities |
| 10:45 AM | Devorah Kletenik and Rachel F. Adler | Breaking Down Barriers: Empowering K-12 Students with Accessibility Education |
| 11:00 AM | Tamara Nelson-Fromm | Task-Specific Programming for Introductory Language Manipulation |
| 11:15 AM | Aditri Bhagirath | Interdisciplinary K-12 CS Education: An Integrative Approach |
| 11:30 AM | Invited talk: Olúwakẹ́mi Ọlamudzengi | Deconstructing Tech Colonialism |
Afternoon Session: Social Justice
| Time | Presenter | Talk title |
|---|---|---|
| 1:00 PM | Barry Burd and Michael McCarthy | Teaching IoT with a Focus on Social Justice and Sustainability |
| 1:15 PM | Guy E. White, Bernie Longboy, and Yuliia Zhukovets, | CS50 Global Outreach to Teachers in Indonesia |
| 1:30 PM | Ryan Cunningham | Ethics as a Technical Course |
| 1:45 PM | Kathleen Isenegger | Mentoring High School Students in Computer Science |
| 2:00 PM | Shubhkarman Singh | Empowering Equity in Computing Education: A Family-Centric Approach in Underprivileged Communities |
| 2:15 PM | Kevin Lin | An Invitation to Reimagine: Empowering Students to Redesign Computing Problems and Artifacts |
| 2:30 PM | Invited talk: Joe Politz | High Standards, Multiple Tries – How I’ve Been Grading |
| 3:00 PM | First Day’s Closing Remarks and Socialize |
Morning Session: Accessibility
| Time | Presenter | Talk title |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 AM | Second Day’s Opening Remarks | |
| 10:15 AM | Invited talk: Jess Monahan | TAutistic College Students: Current Research & Recommendations |
| 10:45 AM | Brian Guerrero | Social Justice and Computing: A Human Centered Design Approach |
| 11:00 AM | Emma R. Dodoo | Teaching Computing to K-12 Emergent Bilinguals in Computing: Exploring Educators’ Perspectives and Practices |
| 11:15 AM | Turgay Korkmaz | Increasing Student Success and Broadening Participation in Computer Science through I-FOCUS-CS, an NSF-funded S-STEM project |
| 11:30 AM | Invited talk: Lawrence Angrave | Universal Design for Learning (UDL) & Web Content Accessibility Guidelines(WCAG): Modern challenges & opportunities of inclusive accessible learning and educational research |
Afternoon Session: Community College
| Time | Presenter | Talk title |
|---|---|---|
| 1:00 PM | Invited talk: Doris Espiritu | Creating a Successful Engineering/CS Transfer Pathways to Ensure Equitable Education for All |
| 1:30 PM | Philip Guo | Broadening Participation and Diversity in Computing by Unhiding the Hidden Curriculum |
| 1:45 PM | Bruce Elgort | Teaching CS50 in Community Colleges and Beyond |
| 2:00 PM | Charles Hepler | College Computing Classes: Some Things That Don’t Scale |
| 2:15 PM | Rongxin Liu | Transforming Community College Education through AI-Enhanced Learning Models |
| 2:30 PM | Invited talk: Panos Hadjimitsos | CS for the Masses – Towards an Ecosystem That Supports It |
| 3:00 PM | Closing Remarks |
2024 Organizing Committee
Yael Gertner
Teaching Assistant Professor
University of Illinois
Brad Solomon
Teaching Assistant Professor
University of Illinois
Tiffani L. Williams
Teaching Professor
University of Illinois
Ruby Tahboub
Teaching Assistant Professor
University of Illinois
Michael Nowak
Teaching Assistant Professor
University of Illinois