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Computational Thinking

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Computational Thinking resources, overviews, and summaries

Computational Thinking experience reports, papers, talks

See also Lenandlar Singh's CT bibliography

School Textbooks Referring to Computational Thinking

  • A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas (2012). (Computational thinking is referred to throughout the text. Available as a free .pdf or access online)

Cross Curricula 'computational thinking'

  • Weintrop, D., Beheshti, E., Horn, M., Orton, K., Jona, K., Trouille, L., & Wilensky, U. (2016). Defining Computational Thinking for Mathematics and Science Classrooms. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 25(1), 127-147. The reference list is a goldmine.
  • Settle, A., Franke, B., Hansen, R., Spaltro, F., Jurisson, C., Rennert-May, C., & Wildeman, B. (2012, July). Infusing computational thinking into the middle-and high-school curriculum.  In Proceedings of the 17th ACM annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education (pp. 22-27). ACM.
  • Israel, M., Pearson, J. N., Tapia, T., Wherfel, Q. M., & Reese, G. (2015). Supporting all learners in school-wide computational thinking: A cross-case qualitative analysis. Computers & Education, 82, 263-279.
  • Papert, S. (1972) Teaching Children to be Mathematicians versus Teaching About Mathematics. International Journal of Mathematics Education in Science and Technology, 3, 249-262: > Psychologists sometimes react by saying, Oh you mean the transfer problem. But I do not mean anything analogous to experiments on whether students who were taught algebra last year automatically learn geometry more easily than students who spent last year doing gymnastics. I am asking whether one can identify and teach (or foster the growth of) something other than algebra or geometry, which, once learned, will make it easy to learn algebra and geometry. No doubt, this other thing (let s call it the MWOT) can only be taught by using particular topics as vehicles

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