I recently presented a workshop and a presentation on computational thinking at the annual Association for Educational Communications and Technology in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Below are some of the materials I used, if...
Author - Peter Rich
On 10 Aug., 2018, I facilitated a workshop on using robots to teach computational thinking. As a reminder, computational thinking is a problem solving process where we use technology to automate solutions. There are varied...
It’s been just over a year since the book I edited with Chuck Hodges (Georgia Southern University) was published online. Since that time, it has performed in the top 25% of books in Springer’s education offerings...
I had the pleasure of presenting online today about compassion as a lens through which to see 21st-century skills. For those who missed it, I believe you can access the video at: For those interested in the presentation...
At the annual meeting for the Association for Educational Communication and Technology this year, I presented a workshop on preparing preservice teachers to teach coding, research on teachers’ beliefs about and...
For those following updates on our international study of teacher practices in teaching coding in K-8, the article is currently under review. You can find a draft article at: For all those wonderful teachers who contributed...
Our team at BYU has now compiled many of the results from the international survey on coding practices in K-8. If you are interested in analyzing these data for yourself, you can download the full, de-identified dataset here...
Those that know me, know that I promote that all kids learn to code. It’s a useful 21st-century skill for interacting with our increasingly computational world. In addition, I see that learning to code teaches problem...
Dr. Charles Hodges (Georgia Southern University) and I are currently co-editing a book on Computational Thinking research and practice that will be published by Springer. Every week, we like to share a quote from one of the...
Dr. Charles Hodges (Georgia Southern University) and I are currently co-editing a book on Computational Thinking research and practice that will be published by Springer. Every week, we like to share a quote from one of the...