The Rural CS+Agriculture Alliance Research Practitioner Partnership: Experience Report
This program is tentative and subject to change.
Computer science’s multidisciplinary importance is becoming widely recognized, and few fields are seeing this change more rapidly than agriculture. One example is the advent of Precision Agriculture, which leverages advancements in technology to monitor crops and livestock and precisely apply nutrients, herbicides, etc. for the overall health of the crop. Such innovations will upset the status quo, creating an opportunity for greater equity in emerging CS job markets. However, CS opportunities are not equitably distributed both socioeconomically and geographically, with most CS opportunities existing in wealthier metropolitan areas. We surveyed and interviewed K-12 agriculture teachers from Rural Title 1 schools in North Carolina, and interviewed them about their experiences, visions of the future of agriculture, the emerging AgTech economies, and difficulties they had adjusting to these shifting agricultural domains in their teaching. These teachers form the first phase of the Rural CS+Agriculture Alliance, which will focus on the creation of curriculum to support the integration of computer science topics into rural agriculture classrooms.
This program is tentative and subject to change.
Fri 28 FebDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
15:45 - 17:00 | |||
15:45 18mTalk | Emotions and Self-Efficacy of Undergraduate Computing and Engineering Students: A Systematic Literature Review Papers | ||
16:03 18mTalk | Rooted in the Collective: A Culturally Situated Artificial Intelligence (AI) Education Workshop For Urban Farmers Papers Sukanya Kannan Moudgalya University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Carmen Palileo University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Srinayana Patil University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Rhema Linder University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Sai Swaminathan University of Tennessee, Knoxville | ||
16:22 18mTalk | The Rural CS+Agriculture Alliance Research Practitioner Partnership: Experience Report Papers Joseph Wiggins Katabasis, Benjamin Taylor Katabasis, Alexandra Cail Katabasis, Jorge Parra Katabasis, Julianna Martinez Ruiz Katabasis, William Causey Katabasis | ||
16:41 18mTalk | Designing Courses for Liberal Arts and Sciences Students Contextualized around Creative Expression and Social Justice Papers |