Incorporating Cultural Difference in Computer Science Education - Indigenous Perspectives

This paper begins to address the broader question of how we can incorporate cultural difference in computer science education with a particular focus on Indigenous peoples.Written by a collective of Indigenous scholars within the field of Computer Science from Aotearoa / New Zealand, Canada, and Hawai'i we use the paper as an opportunity to provide concrete examples from our own teaching practice as to how we can begin to actively incorporate cultural difference into teaching in our field.We follow with a discussion of a range of concrete steps that can be taken to help embed the structural shifts required to successfully bring about an increased recognition of cultural difference and its impact on computing as an important aspect of modern computer science education.As a provocation, this paper does not intend to provide the definitive answer to these issues but instead provides a range of options and concrete examples that we are pursuing as a collective that might help inform the thinking of others as they move forward and confront these issues in their own teaching practice.