Hello all! My name is Sara Vogel, I am a first year doctoral student in the GC’s Urban Education program. I am interested in researching the intersection of computer science education, digital literacy, and bilingual education at the K-12 level. These interests were shaped by my work as a teacher in the US and abroad, and as an educator with young people in after school and out-of-school time programs where the students worked on developing their own video games and multimedia projects. I am excited to dive in to ITP Core 2 and to put all of the theory from last semester to work! You can find me at http://cuny.is/saraevogel

Some ideas I have been kicking around for the independent study project include:
– Fleshing out a network diagram visualization of the K-12 computer science educators network in NYC as the CS4All initiative gets off the ground (maybe using data from those who coordinate the network).
– Creating online professional development modules for teachers of emergent bilingual students — using some of the content I’ve worked on with the CUNY-NYS Initiative on Emergent Bilinguals project.
– A tool which in some way helps me analyze the multimedia/digital practices of youth whose languages I don’t speak.