Intro to Computer Science for Educators: Computational Thinking in the Classroom
Overview
Computational thinking is for everyone: readers, writers, artists, educators, mathematicians, historians, and scientists. Curious what computational thinking is all about and why it’s so often discussed in the context of computer science alone?
| Designed For | Teachers and educators |
| Topics | Instructional planning and strategies; Technology |
| Platform | Canvas |
| Source | Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation |
Learning outcomes
- Define computer science in a way that is developmentally appropriate for K12 students and defend its critical relevance as a K12 field of study.
- Describe five research-based, practitioner-friendly examples of how they could integrate computational thinking into the K12 classroom.
- Describe concrete steps they can take to move us toward achieving greater equity with respect to educational opportunities in K12 computer science.
- Create animations, games, and stories in Scratch leveraging movement, dialogue, loops, conditionals, variables, and more.
- Design standards-aligned lessons, activities, explorations, and assessments for implementation in the K12 computer science classroom.
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