These are my upcoming and past keynotes and invited talks.
Liberatory Futures for Computing Literacyย
NCWIT Summit 2024
May 21, 2024
I discuss the intersectional needs of trans youth in schools, and what implications that has for serving all youth in computing education.
Searching for Justice in Programming Language Designย
University of Michigan
May 2, 2023
I examine what it might mean to center justice in programming language design, and unveal Wordplay.dev, a creative coding platform striving for equity and justice in accessibility and natural language.
The Promise and Problems of CS for Allย
CSAIL, MIT
Oct 25, 2022
A revised version of my SFU talk, which motivates the need for computing literacy, talks about my lab's recent discoveries, and challenges us to have broader visions of computing in education.
The Promise and Problems of CS for Allย
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada
Sep 20, 2022
I make the case for computing literacy, sample from my lab's many discoveries over the past decade, and call the audience to action to contribute.
Programming as Cognition, Programming as Politicsย
University of Colorado Boulder, Institute for Cognitive Science
Nov 19, 2021
In this talk, I survey my 20 years of research on programming, some of which has framed it as a distributed sociocognitive activity, and some of which has framed it as a political activity. I reconcile these two perspectives by rejecting the dichotomy, and advocating for work that considers them in tandem.
The Roots of Inequity in K-12 CS Educationย โ
Keynote
2021 CSTA Conference
Jul 15, 2021
This is a keynote I gave the CS Teachers Association (CSTA) annual conference. It discusses the many interacting layers of inequity in K-12 CS education, including many of my own personal experiences discovering inequities in schools that I or others have created. It also offers suggestions to teachers about how they can participate in identifying and dismantling barriers.
Deconstructing CS Cultureย โ
Keynote
2021 IEEE RESPECT Conference
May 27, 2021
This talk examined the hidden marginalization that led to the CS culture we have today, discussing CS history, Autism, immigration, queer refuges, segregation, desegregation, capitalism, and more.
Critical Computing Educationย
Digital Learning Lab, University of California, Irvine
Apr 16, 2021
This was the seventh time I gave my talk on critical computing education. In this version, I revised the slides to speak more to a learning sciences and education audience.
Critical Computing Educationย
California Institute of Technology, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Keller Colloquium
Mar 1, 2021
This was the sixth time I gave my talk on critical computing education. In this version, I updated the research slides with new papers and evidence.
Critical Computing Educationย
University of California, Davis, Computer Science, Computing Education Research at Davis Seminar
Feb 12, 2021
This was the fifth time I gave my talk on critical computing education. In this version, I updated the research slides with new papers and evidence.
Studying Programming through Makingย
2020 PL+HCI Swimmer School
Aug 3, 2020
I gave this invited presentation on August 3rd, to at the 2020 PL+HCI "Swimmer School". The overarching goal was to explain how user studies shape our understanding of what we make; it also served as a retrospective of my dissertation work on the Whyline.
CS Education in Higher Educationย
Microsoft
Jun 15, 2020
I gave this presentation to Microsoft on June 15th; they were engaging in design envisioning to support CS teaching and wanted some background on it and how the pandemic was affecting it. I used it as an opportunity to talk about the racist and sexist history of higher education, of CS in higher education, the ways that CS pedagogy have failed to include all students, and how the pandemic has amplified these failures. I shared it on Twitter, which led to considerable sharing, solidatory, and outrage. I intentionally did not include citations for my claims because scientific evidence tends to be weaponized by those do not believe that racism or sexism exists; instead, I included a link pointing to the body of literature supporting the claims.
Three Years in the Startup Trenchesย
Amazon Stackhouse Talks
Feb 21, 2017
Amazon UX designers invited me to give a talk at the Stackhouse series; there were about 150 UX designers and engineers in attendance.
A Human View of Programming Languagesย โ
Keynote
SPLASH 2016
Nov 4, 2016
I gave this invited keynote at SPLASH 2016, in which I built upon Seymour Papert's arguments about computing culture and the need for embracing multiple views of what programming is.
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