Katie Apone
ABSTRACT
As awareness of computer science education grows in the general public, it is important to showcase computer science education as accessible for all grades K-12 and beyond. As panelists present the projects and research they've been conducting, we will highlight three overarching topics:
The importance of K-5 computer science education to educators of all grade levels,
Thoughts on why K-5 has traditionally been less prominent in the computer science education landscape, and
Strategies on how we, the computer science education community, can promote K-5 computer science education as worthwhile as 6-12+ computer science education.
Barriers to why K-5 computer science education is not as prominent as that in grades 6-12, such as scarcity of wide-spread curriculum or scarcity of research, will lead to panelists presenting how their work is rectifying this imbalance.
This session's panelists are pioneers and important thought leaders in the K-5 computer science education field. Panelists in this session are either producing research in the K-5 computer science education field or working at a large scale to promote or increase participation of K-5 students in computer science.
- "Women Who Choose Computer Science - What Really Matters," Google Corp. May 26, 2014, http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/us/edu/pdf/women-who-choose-what-really.pdfGoogle Scholar
- Brennan, K. (2013). Learning computing through creating and connecting. IEEE Computer, Special Issue: Computing in Education. doi:10.1109/MC.2013.229 Google ScholarDigital Library
Index Terms
- Bringing Grades K-5 to the Mainstream of Computer Science Education
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