Our new project, CT4EDU will design, implement, and assess a high-quality, integrated curriculum, and professional development to support elementary school teachers in embedding computational thinking (CT) into their classrooms. In partnership with the Oakland Intermediate School District and the American Institute for Research, we will establish a Research Practitioner Partnership (RPP) using…
The increased push to expand computing into K-12 schools in the United States requires us to train thousand s of new teachers to not only understand computing ideas, but also how to teach their students how to think computationally. However, there are few teacher education programs that focus on developing preservice teachers’ understanding of computational…
My colleague Ashlie Martini and I have received funding from National Science Foundation to use case studies to introduce design thinking to first-generation and underrepresented students to help them transition from classroom and lab-based learning to engineering capstone design and ultimately to their careers in engineering fields. Through this project, we will (a) develop…
My colleague Mike DeSchryver and I wrote a article arguing for the use of new literacies and computational thinking to promote creative thinking. We discuss the design decisions we make to integrate computational thinking through new literacies and computational thinking for inservice teachers enrolled in our Masters in Educational Technology (MAET) program at Michigan…