Week 2: Computational thinking

Week 2 (September 4)

K-12 CS can't just mean hanging out online. Week 2 introduces CS disciplinary content knowledge as a priority in K-12 CS education, focusing on the effort to define computational thinking. We will spend the class doing several short lessons in Scratch designed to teach basic CS concepts, and then using this experience as the jumping-off point for a discussion of various tensions over what computational thinking ought to mean. (Don't worry! This activity will be differentiated to support students with any level of formal computer science experience.)

Agenda

Act	Activities
I	CT in Scratch: Student projects
II	CT in Scratch: Lab
III	Discuss the readings: Synthesize notes and questions

• Critical Computational Literacies Fall 2023
• Assignments
• Schedule
• 1. Schooling in the age of computers
• Week 2: Computational thinking
• 3: Computational literacies
• 4: Critical computational literacies
• 5: Computing and identity
• 6: Identity, culture, and intersectionality
• 7: Fall break
• 8: Mediated identity
• 9: Disciplinary identities
• 10: Literacy places
• 11: Designing and defining computer science
• 12: Supporting critical action
• 13: Connecting across literacies
• 14: Connected learning