Share Paper: A Journey Towards Computer Science and Computational Thinking as a New Literacy for Teacher Candidates

  1. Chery Lucarelli, The College of St. Scholastica, United States
  2. Jill Long, The College of St. Scholastica, United States
  3. Jennifer Rosato, The College of St. Scholastica, United States
  4. Heather Benedict, Heather Benedict, LLC, United States
Wednesday, March 28 5:45 PM-7:00 PM Edison Ballroom D

Abstract: This session will describe the in-progress efforts of TeachCS@CSS Funded by Google, the TeachCS@CSS project aims to infuse computational thinking content and pedagogy throughout the teacher preparation programs at The College of St Scholastica At the same time, a critical focus of the project is providing pre-service teachers with the tools they will need for addressing computational thinking and equity issues that exist in K12 schools At the outset, the project recognized that to train new teachers to support computational thinking (CT) and computer science (CS) in K12 schools there would need to be professional development for teacher education faculty ...