The Four Rs in a Computer Science Context

This brief report describes early work adapting the Four Rs (Respect, Relevance, Reciprocity, and Responsibility) to a computer science (CS) context as a way to incorporate Indigenous Ways of Knowing (IWoK) into a CS course. To mitigate the risk of marginalizing or appropriating Indigenous knowledge, a four step approach makes transparent the original context and content distilled out of the Four Rs as they are adapted to a CS context. In keeping with reconciliation, Indigenous voices are included in the process.