Emerging research, practice, and policy on computational thinking. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Peter J. Rich, Charles B. Hodges, editors.
• Editors: Rich, Peter J; Hodges, Charles B
• 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 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 006.31; Education; Computational learning theory; COMPUTERS -- General; Computational learning theory; Education -- Educational Psychology; Education -- Computers & Technology; Teaching skills & techniques; Educational equipment & technology, computer-aided learning (CAL); Education; Educational Technology; Learning & Instruction; Computers and Education; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319526911
• Related ISBNs: 331952691X; 9783319526904; 3319526901
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 23, 2017).
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