Address Misconceptions About the Field of CS

Use the words women and men (or boys and girls) instead of the words male and female when talking about things that are gender-specific to respect the difference between the sex and gender of your students.

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Say black people/students/etc instead of blacks because using black as an adjective emphasizes the humanity of black people.

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Show past student projects during professional developments for courses that use Scratch to convince adults that kids of all ages can wrestle with hard, interesting problems and be excited by programming in Scratch.

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Model parabolic motion in Scratch to show students (and teachers) that Scratch can handle engaging, complex problems because it is a real programming languages.

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Show a storyboarding video clip from Pixar’s Toy Story to show students that storyboarding is a real world activity and that storyboarding is vital in some careers.

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Encourage students to work on side projects to make sure they are getting enough programming practice and to make them more marketable.

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Tell students that the concepts they’re learning are useful “all the time” so they realize the material will be important in the future.

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When teaching objects avoid gender-stereotyped objects

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Have students make and sell class shirts to get them involved.

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Distinguish between learning a lab science and learning CS to motivate those students who do not typically identify with science.

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