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This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 27 Feb 2025 17:30 - 18:20 at Meeting Rooms 302-303 - Flock 1h

Data privacy and software accessibility are important issues. In order to enforce correct practice, many American states (and other countries) are introducing legislation to enforce data privacy and software accessibility for tools that are used in school classrooms. This has widespread implications for the use of programming tools in computer science classrooms in the USA and globally. The makers of such tools must ensure compliance with these laws and typically school districts are requiring certification of this before teachers can use them. This applies even if the tool is making no direct or indirect revenue, which adds a technical and legal burden even for free open-source tools. This birds-of-a-feather session is intended to bring together everyone affected by these changes – teachers, school districts, policy-makers, and programming tool makers – to discuss the ramifications of these issues and form ideas for best practices.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 27 Feb

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17:30 - 18:20
17:30
50m
Talk
The implication of accessibility and privacy legislation on classroom programming tools
Birds of a Feather
Neil Brown King's College London, Samantha Schwartz Code.org, Andreas Stefik University of Nevada at Las Vegas, USA