Now We're Cooking With STEAM: Humanities in Computer Science Education
summary
Code.org raises $10 million while ~80% of schools face arts budget cuts and access for Black and Latinx students falls from ~50% to ~26%. Uses Bubblesort Zines and a playful cattery analogy to show concrete pedagogy: visual metaphors for circuits, Ethiopian multiplication and Congo drum protocols to teach history, and exercises like generative art, hacked knitting machines, music visualizations. Claims include cryptography stories where Enigma shortening WWII by 2–3 years saves ~21 million lives and empathy gains that change design choices.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:24Humanities in CS Education
- 1:47Art Visual Aids
- 2:40Cattery Analogy
- 2:59Resistance
- 3:18History
- 3:56Symbolism
- 4:12Arithmetic
- 4:58Long Distance Communication
- 8:59Creativity
- 9:33Empathy
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