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...
Category - Computational Thinking
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...
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...
What is the most commonly used programming language to teach kids to code? How many years of experience do these teachers have in teaching kids to code? Are teachers required to teach kids to code or do they do it of their own...