Filtering the world around us so we can pay attention to the most important parts.
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Preparing Pre-Service Teachers for the Future: Computational Thinking as a Scaffold for Critical Thinking
Renee Moran (East Tennessee State University, USA), Laura Roberston (East Tennessee State University, USA), Chihche Tai (East Tennessee State University, USA), Karin J. Keith (East Tennessee State University, USA), Jamie Price (East Tennessee State University, USA), Lori T. Meier (East Tennessee State University, USA), and Huili Hong (Towson University, USA)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 13
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1479-5.ch002
Abstract
In this chapter, we explore how our team of professors at East Tennessee State University integrated computational thinking into elementary education courses for pre-service teachers. We lean on current research to understand the definition, purpose, and culture surrounding computational thinking and consider how it may develop students' analytic skills and critical. Because of our particular context, we are interested in the play of gender and socioeconomic status in the development of technological and computational abilities. We share ideas we experimented with in Science and English language arts pre-service methods courses, as well as faculty and pre-service teacher perspectives on the developing experience.