the voice of the rest of the world

a handful in a few major world languages

A Postcolonial Look at the Future of #EdTech

closing the “digital use divide.”

Bridging the Digital Divide

help TAs — especially those from other countries

While TAs are intended to help students understand the material, their teaching skills vary and they come at the job with widely different backgrounds.

The ultimate goal of the project is to support improved teaching and learning in university classrooms by bridging cultural divides between students and their teachers.

there is some disparity and implicit bias

make money for Californian white people

At Google, I'll be encouraged to take annual Bias-Busting training, gathering with other privileged honkeys to encourage one another's virtuous respect of black coworkers we don't have.

Google decided to close Atlanta engineering, and they mainly went as a group to Square

It creates resentment towards minorities because you are forced to take take this training that treats them like charity cases which in turn encourages the “lowering the bar” mentality.

It encourages thinking that “you’ve done your part” since you’ve been taken training on diversity

feel they are extremely open minded & tolerant

technical interviews are completely worthless as a predictor for whether someone is a good hire or not

We believe that America’s diversity is our strength.

Black students in these schools took AP Physics at almost 11 times the rate as black students elsewhere, and they passed the exams at 3.4 times the rate

How does the increasing diversity of our student population make good teaching more challenging and what is the best approach to meeting that challenge?

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

The War on Stupid People

we need to broaden perceptions and stereotypes of CS

Prescriptivists dislike the use of “impact” as a verb

preservation of divergent goals

may not transfer well across borders because of language and context

Because the sad thing about empathy is that we are more likely to be empathetic toward people who remind us of ourselves. Where it is easier to imagine ourselves in their shoes. On a second level, we are more likely to empathize with a group of people of whom we know some personally (or at least we know of/about them) because in reality I deeply believe that most people are good. And so if you know enough people of a certain category, most of them will be good. When we don’t know anyone from a certain category we are likely to dehumanize them

particularly for women of color.

college was never quite as uniform as we thought it was

wide range of metacognitive skills

open access

Well-intentioned (and grammatically correct) though it may be, changing pronouns has very little impact on inclusivity. When you’re starting from a default position of exclusivity, when people automatically associate you with the tone-deaf cringefests that are one of open source’s worst problems, when people see your community and your leadership and find very few diverse participants, when your actions don’t illustrate how people can play a role if they won’t prove themselves better coders than those already involved, hanging up a sign saying “no one is disallowed” is not going to be enough. Saying you want to be inclusive does not create a culture of inclusivity.

Foreign words, like men, and like many of our institutions, have come to us, I might almost say, from all nations.