Browsing Digital Promise Reports and Publications by Author "Owens, Aileen"

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Computing in rural America: Developing K-8 coding pathways for Kentucky Appalachia

Burke, Quinn; Iwatani, Emi; Owens, Aileen; Tackett, Traci; May, Payton (Digital Promise, 2020-11)

What are the technical (and cultural) challenges of bringing computational thinking to small-town school districts? The overwhelming majority of computing initiatives focus nearly exclusively on urban/suburban districts. ...
Pivoting in a Pandemic: Transitioning from In-person to Virtual K-8 Computing Professional Development

Burke, Quinn; Iwatani, Emi; Ruiz, Pati; Tackett, Traci; Owens, Aileen (Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021-03)

This poster reports on year one of a three-year NSF-funded Research Practitioner Partnership (RPP) to develop a K-8 pipeline for computer science (CS) and computational thinking (CT) education within two rural school ...
Resisting Edtech Colonialism through Inclusive Innovation in Kentucky Appalachia

Iwatani, Emi; Ruiz, Pati; Burke, Quinn; Owens, Aileen; Tackett, Traci (Digital Promise, 2021-09)

Colonialism occurs “when one nation subjugates another, conquering its population and exploiting it, often while forcing its own language and cultural values upon its people” (National Geographic, 2019). With K-12 public ...

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