Videos
Check out our project’s introduction video and a webseries featuring our approach and case studies of multilingual CS classrooms in action.
What is PiLa-CS and what do we do?
For a quick summary of our project, check out this video overview, submitted to the 2019 STEM For All Video Showcase where we were a Public Choice Award Winner!
Exploring Equity in Computer Science: A Translanguaging Approach to Computing Education
Learn about our approach in the web series below.
Created in collaboration with the New York City Department of Education. Learn more at the DOE CS4All’s Equity site.
Episode 1: Teaching Multilingual Learners in CS: Redefining the Problem
As CS for All grows as a national initiative, teachers may find themselves wondering how to reach multilingual learners. This first video calls out the systems that prevent these learners from reaching their full potential. It also introduces the Participating in Literacies and-Computer Science (PiLa-CS) project.
Episode 2: Translanguaging 101
How much do CS teachers know about the language their students use outside of class? This video considers how translanguaging theory from bilingual education can help Computer Science educators get to know their students, and looks at examples of how translanguaging occurs in students’ lives.
Episode 3: Translanguaging Pedagogy in CSed
This video looks at how multilingual students already use translanguaging in their computer science classes and discusses how CS educators can further support them with translanguaging pedagogy, a framework that prompts teachers to consider their stance, design, and shifts.
Episode 4: What CSed Can Offer Bi/Multilinguals
This video discusses how computer science education can benefit multilingual learners. You will meet a middle school ENL teacher who successfully incorporated both translanguaging pedagogy and CS education into her classroom, leading to a memorable experience for one of her students.
Episode 5: Designing Meaningful Conversations in CSed
This video introduces an approach to planning for meaningful conversations in computer science education by walking through the unit of a middle school science teacher. She used syncretic literacies to engage her school subject, computer science topics, and her students’ communities to explore Hurricane María’s impacts in Puerto Rico.