Teacher Transformations in Developing Computational Thinking: Gaming and Robotics Use in After-School Settings

Abstract

This book reports on research and practice on computational thinking and the effect it is having on education worldwide, both inside and outside of formal schooling. With coding becoming a required skill in an increasing number of national curricula (e.g., the United Kingdom, Israel, Estonia, Finland), the ability to think computationally is quickly becoming a primary 21st century "basic" domain of knowledge. The authors of this book investigate how this skill can be taught and its resultant effects on learning throughout a student's education, from elementary school to adult learning. Part1. K-12 Education -- Chapter1. Learning computational skills in ucode@uwg:challenges and recommendations -- Chapter2. Making computer science attractive to high school girls with computational thinking approaches:a case study. -- Chapter3. Understanding african-american students' problem-solving ability in the pre-calculus and advanced placement computer science classroom -- Chapter4. Computational thinking as an interdisciplinary approach to computer science school curricula:computer scientific reasoning in the medical curriculum -- Chapter5. Proto-computational Thinking: the Uncomfortable Underpinnings -- Part2. Higher Education -- Chapter6. Medical computational thinking: computer scientific reasoning in the medical curriculum -- Chapter7. Integrating computational thinking in discrete structures -- Chapter8. A computational approach to learning programming using visual programming in a developing country university -- Chapter9. Creating and evaluating a visual programming course based on student experience -- Chapter10. Using model-based learning to promote computational thinking education -- Part3. Teacher Development -- Chapter11. Teaching computational thinking patterns in rural communities -- Chapter12. Teacher transformations in developing computational thinking gaming and robotics use in after-school settings -- Chapter13. Computational thinking in teacher education -- Chapter14. Computational thinking conceptions and misconceptions:progression of preservice teacher thinking during computer science lesson planning -- Chapter15. The code abc mooc experiences from a coding and computational thinking mooc for finnish primary school teachers -- Chapter16. Assessing computational thinking across the curriculum -- Chapter17. Assessing algorithmic & computational thinking in k-12 lessons from a middle school classroom -- Chapter18. Principles of computational thinking tools -- Chapter19. Exploring strengths and weaknesses in middle school students' computational thinking in scratch -- Chapter20. Measuring computational thinking development with the fun! Tool -- Chapter21. Reenergizing cs0 in china -- Chapter22. Computational thinking:efforts in korea -- Chapter23. A future-focused education:designed to create the innovators of tomorrow -- Chapter24. Computational participation teaching kids to create and connect through code.