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Real name: 

Primary Discipline

Primary Discipline: 

  • Formal SciencesComputer ScienceHuman-computer interaction

Further Specification: 

Technology mediated CS Education
Secondary Discipline

Secondary Discipline: 

  • Social SciencesEducationEducation by specializationComputer science education

Biography: 

Forthcoming.

Recent publications: 

Eglash, R., Bennett, A., Cooke, L., Babbitt, W., Lachney, M. (2021) Counter-hegemonic computing: toward computer science education for value generation and emancipation. ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE) 21 (4), 1-30.
Lachney, M., Babbitt, W., Bennett, A., Eglash, R. (2021) Generative computing: African-American cosmetology as a link between computing education and community wealth. Interactive Learning Environments 29 (7), 1115-1135.
Lachney, M., Yadav, A., Drazin, M., Allen, M.C., Babbitt, W. (2021) Culturally Responsive Debugging: a Method to Support Cultural Experts’ Early Engagement with Code. TechTrends, 1-14.
Michael Lachney, Ron Eglash, Audrey Bennett, William Babbitt, Lakisha Foy, Matt Drazin & Kathryn M. Rich (2021): pH empowered: community participation in culturally responsive computing education, Learning, Media and Technology, DOI: 10.1080/17439884.2021.1891421
Eglash, R., Bennett, A., Lachney, M., and Babbitt, W. 2021. Evolving systems for generative justice: decolonial approaches to the cosmolocal. pp. 60-75 In Ramos, J., Bauwens, M., Ede, S., & Wong, J.G. The Cosmolocal Reader. Melbourne: FuturesLab.
Babbitt, W., Lachney, M., (2021) Two Concepts of Enoughness as Organizing Design Principles for Generative STEM Education and Culturally Situated Design Tools. New Design Ideas, Special Issue on Generative Justice in Design, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp 81-93.
Eglash, R., Robert, L., Bennett, A., Robinson, K.P., Lachney, M., Babbitt, W. (2020) Automation for the artisanal economy: Enhancing the economic and environmental sustainability of crafting professions with human-machine collaboration. AI & Society 35 (3), 595-609.
Eglash, R., Bennett, A., Lachney, M., & Babbitt, W. (2020, April). Race-positive design: A generative approach to decolonizing computing. In Human factors in computing systems.
Eglash, R., Bennett, A., Babbitt, W., Lachney, M., Reinhardt, M., & Hammond‐Sowah, D. (2020). Decolonizing posthumanism: Indigenous material agency in generative STEM. British Journal of Educational Technology, 51(4), 1334-1353.
Eglash, R., Lachney, M., Babbitt, W. et al. Decolonizing education with Anishinaabe arcs: generative STEM as a path to indigenous futurity. Education Tech Research Dev (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-019-09728-6
Eglash, R., Robert, L., Bennett, A., Robinson, K., Lachney, M., Babbitt, W. (2019) AI for a Generative Economy: The Role of Intelligent Systems in Sustaining Unalienated Labor, Environment, and Society. AAAI fall Symposium Series
Lachney, M., Babbitt, W., Bennett, A., & Eglash, R. “A Voice to Talk About it”: Cosmetologists as STEM Experts in Educational Technology Design and Implementation. European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, Vol. 22 No. 2. (2019), pp. 41–55. https://doi.org/10.2478/eurodl-2019-0009
Lachney, M., Babbitt, W., Bennett, A., & Eglash R. "Generative computing: African-American cosmetology as a link between computing education and community wealth. Interactive Learning Environments (2019). https://doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2019.1636087
Davis, J., Lachney, M., Zatz, Z., Babbitt, W., & Eglash, R. A Cultural Computing Curriculum. In Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science. Symposium conducted at the meeting of ACM (2019). https://doi.org/10.1145/3287324.3287439
Eglash, R., Babbitt, W., Bennett, A., Bennett, K., Callahan, B., Davis, J., et al. (2016) Culturally Situated Design Tools: Generative Justice as a Foundation for STEM Diversity. In Yolanda Rankin, Y. and Thomas, J. Moving Students of Color from Consumers to Producers of Technology. Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGC Global.
Lachney, M., Babbitt, W., Eglash, R. (2016) Software Design in the “Construction Genre” of Learning Technology: Content Aware Versus Content Agnostic. Computational Culture, a Journal of Software Studies. http://computationalculture.net/article/software-design-inthe-constructi...
Bennett, Audrey; Eglash, Ron; Lachney, Michael; Babbitt, William (2016): In Mahesh Raisinghani (Ed.) Revolutionizing Education through Web-Based Instruction. Design Agency: Diversifying Computer Science at the Intersections of Creativity and Culture. Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design (AETID) Book Series, pp. 35–56. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9932-8.ch003
Babbitt, W., Lachney, M., Bulley, E. and Eglash, R. (2015) Adinkra Mathematics: A randomized, controlled study of ethnocomputing in Ghana. In Multidisciplinary Journal of Educational Research 5(2), 110-135. doi:10.17583/remie.2015.1399 
Poirier, L., Eglash, R, and Babbitt, B. "Adinkra Symbols." Math Is a Verb: Activities and Lessons from Cultures Around the World, by Jim Barta, Ron Eglash, Cathy Barkley. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, December 2014.
Babbitt, W., (2012) An analysis of the programmable Culturally Situated Design Tools from an HCI perspective, Transactions of the Third Annual Symposium on Theory and Research in HCI.
Babbitt, W., Lyles, D., Eglash, R. (2011) From Ethnomathematics to Ethnocomputing: indigenous algorithms in traditional context and contemporary simulation. In Alternative forms of knowing (in) mathematics: Celebrations of Diversity of Mathematical Practices, Sense Publishers.

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