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...
Tag - Computational Thinking
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...
I am currently working on an edited book with Dr. Charles Hodges of Georgia Southern University called, “Computational Thinking: Research and Practice.” We have many chapters from scholars from all around the world...
There are an increasing number of governments, both local and federal, that require or offer computer programming as part of their core curriculum. In January of 2014, a report by The European Schoolnet, a “network of 31...