Activity #1: What is Computational Thinking?

Read: Wing (2006)

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Read: Wing (2011)

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Read: TERC Computational Thinking

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Read: Hunsaker (2020)

https://edtechbooks.org/k12handbook/computational_thinking?book_nav=true&opens=300,313,298,327&nav_pos=89

Read: Sheldon (2017) Computational Thinking Across the Curriculum

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/computational-thinking-across-the-curriculum-eli-sheldon

Read: Randles (2020) Teach Coding and Computational Thinking to Elementary Students

https://www.iste.org/explore/computer-science/teach-coding-and-computational-thinking-elementary-students

Listen to Indian Prairie: Computational Thinking

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/indian-prairie-podcast/id1473869368?i=1000454409945

Read: Randles (2020) Teach Coding and Computational Thinking to Elementary Students

https://www.iste.org/explore/computer-science/teach-coding-and-computational-thinking-elementary-students

Optional Reading: Ofttenbreit-Leftwich & Yadav (2021)

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Optional Reading: Cantu & Cantu (2019)

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Activity #2: Complete a Hello Ruby! Puzzle

Pick a puzzle from Hello Ruby https://www.helloruby.com/play/60 to complete.

Create a Miro flowchart to document your steps to completing the puzzle.

https://miro.com/app/

Post your name, completed puzzle — picture, link, etc. — and miro link on this Google Doc

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wObUiwl64V_csHGo_gclzMPWFNtfjd7vk43rb2oAlbs/edit?usp=sharing

Look through the puzzles posted by your colleagues. Post a question about a colleagues’s puzzle or flowchart on the Google Doc.