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A hypothesis on why #CSforAll remains so elusive in American K12 education (a thread):
“Career pathways” isn’t cutting it as rationale for broadening equitable participation in Comp Sci education across K12.
We need to reframe the need.
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#iledchat #edchat #edutwitter #twill
“Career pathways” isn’t cutting it as rationale for broadening equitable participation in Comp Sci education across K12.
We need to reframe the need.
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#iledchat #edchat #edutwitter #twill
The impact of computing innovations on society, economy, and culture - particularly in just the past 25 years - is undeniably immense.
Not one school, district, state, tribal, territorial, or federal education administrator or policymaker will deny this.
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Not one school, district, state, tribal, territorial, or federal education administrator or policymaker will deny this.
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But, even as educational leaders can see as clearly as #remotelearning just how pervasively computing innovations now-constantly alter our day-day lives..
..we’re afraid, systemwide, to take on the question of whether to allow K12 kids to study that which impacts them, too. 3/
..we’re afraid, systemwide, to take on the question of whether to allow K12 kids to study that which impacts them, too. 3/
1/ Recently a new game called #Wordle from @powerlanguish went viral.
Wordle challenges you to find a random word in 6 tries.
Its fun, simple and addictive. More importantly, it is a good chance for us to teach students about #ComputationalThinking (CT).
🕰 for a 🧵:
Wordle challenges you to find a random word in 6 tries.
Its fun, simple and addictive. More importantly, it is a good chance for us to teach students about #ComputationalThinking (CT).
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2/ CT s a problem solving framework; a systematic way of approaching a problem that can be used in any classroom and with any age of learners.
CT is broken into 4 distinct parts:
- Decomposition 🧩
- Pattern Recognition ⠻
- Abstraction 🧊 > ⬜️
- Algorithm 📍
CT is broken into 4 distinct parts:
- Decomposition 🧩
- Pattern Recognition ⠻
- Abstraction 🧊 > ⬜️
- Algorithm 📍
3/ To learn more about the 4 parts of CT, check out this video from Google:
Or, if you're ready for a dive deep, check out this video from @UCCSEd leader Tim Bell:
bit.ly/3FfzjiE
Or, if you're ready for a dive deep, check out this video from @UCCSEd leader Tim Bell:
bit.ly/3FfzjiE
