Conference Session

Track: Special Topic - Computing & Technology Technical Session I

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Mihaela Sabin, University of New Hampshire; Wendy DuBow, University of Colorado; Adrienne Ann Smith, Cynosure Consulting; Rosabel Deloge, Educational Consultant-Independent

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Diversity, Special Topic: Computing & Technology

Paper ID #24871Changing Perceptions of Who Can Code: A Professional Development Pro-gram for Career and Technical Education TeachersDr. Mihaela Sabin, University of New Hampshire Mihaela Sabin is Associate Professor of Computer Science at UNH Manchester, University of New Hamp- shire. Her research interests are in computing education, open source software, and constraint satisfaction. Sabin’s service to the computing education professional community includes: founding member and Uni- versity liaison for the Computer Science Teacher Association NH Chapter; coordinator of the Aspirations in Computing ME-NH-VT regional

Conference Session

NEW SESSION Track: Special Topic - Computing & Technology Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Olivia Mambo Nche, Clemson University; Murali Sitaraman, Clemson University; Elizabeth L. Colbert-Busch, Clemson University; Victor Zordan

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Diversity, Special Topic: Computing & Technology

. to STEM career possibilities. The rest of the paper is organized into the following Keywords— broadening participation, integrative ap- sections: Section 2 discusses related work. Section 3 describesproach, computational thinking, problem solving the experimental set up. Section 4 details the curriculum and methodology. Section 5 contains results of qualitative I. I NTRODUCTION and quantitative assessments, and analysis. Sections 6 and 7 Research on learning with representations has shown that contain a discussion and a

Conference Session

Track: Special Topic - Computing & Technology Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Claudio Vignola, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Nicholas Flowers, Arizona State University; Brooke Charae Coley, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Diversity, Special Topic: Computing & Technology

learning [15][16]. Virtual embodiment hasbeen shown to influence agency, ownership and interpersonal attitudes through experiences thatenable the possibility of experiencing another person’s perspective first-hand. It is quite plausiblethat similar transformations could occur in IVR for engineering faculty to temporarily transferinto the student—veteran, person with a disability, woman, woman of color, LGBTQ individual,low socioeconomic status or first-generation perspectives—to live firsthand some of themarginalized experiences that ‘inclusion privilege’, power and implicit bias commonlycircumvent. IVR shows promise as a tool to influence the development of empathy towardspeople, careers and identities that are not our own.IVR has this potential