11: CT and AI

This week we take up the final theme of the course, AI. We will explore how AI is conceptualized from within computing education, and how AI education might learn from the successes and failures of CS education.

Readings

McCune, J., Zarch, R., Childs, J., Yadav, A., Marshall, S. L., & Grooms, A. (2026). The Fragile Edge of Innovation: Examining Policy Resilience in State-Level K-12 Artificial Intelligence Guidance. Educational Policy, pp. 1–41.

Tedre, M., Toivonen, T., Kahila, J., Vartiainen, H., Valtonen, T., Jormanainen, I., & Pears, A. (2021). CT 2.0: Upgrading computational thinking for the AI era. Proceedings of the 21st Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research.