Description
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.
Table of Contents
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 basedon 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.
