Computational Thinking and Coding for Every Student: The Teacher’s Getting-Started Guide - Softcover

Krauss, Jane; Prottsman, Kiki

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1506341284 ISBN 13: 9781506341286

Publisher: Corwin, 2017

Synopsis

Empower tomorrow’s tech innovators

Our students are avid users and consumers of technology. Isn’t it time that they see themselves as the next technological innovators, too?  Computational Thinking and Coding for Every Student is the beginner’s guide for K-12 educators who want to learn to integrate the basics of computer science into their curriculum. Readers will find 

• Strategies and activities for teaching computational thinking and coding inside and outside of school, at any grade level, across disciplines
• Instruction-ready lessons for every grade
• A discussion guide and companion website with videos, activities, and other resources

About this title

About the Author

Jane Krauss is a teacher, author and consultant who does curriculum and program development designed to increase participation of girls and other underrepresented groups in computer science. She will gladly tell you why computational thinking is the fundamental literacy of our technical age!

Jane also writes and offers professional development internationally around the topic of project-based learning with technology. With Suzie Boss, she is coauthor of Reinventing Project-Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real World Projects in the Digital Age (2nd ed., 2014, ISTE) and Thinking Through Project-Based Learning: Guiding Deeper Inquiry (2013, Corwin). 

In her free time, Jane enjoys dabbling in glasswork and mosaics, and keeps fit running and hiking on woodland trails just outside her door in Eugene, Oregon.

Kiki Prottsman is Education Program Manager at Code.org and a former computer science instructor at the University of Oregon. As a member of Mensa and a past Chair of Women in Computer Science, she also writes for the Huffington Post and has graced the cover of Open For Business magazine.

 

As a champion for responsible computing and equity in both CS employment and education, Kiki works with organizations to improve the experience of girls and women in STEM. Her landmark work with the hands-on Traveling Circuits computer science curriculum helped Thinkersmith receive the 2013 Google RISE Award for excellence in Science and Engineering. She currently sits on the Advisory Board for Wonder Workshop Robotics, and is a vital member of the Leadership team for the Oregon Girls Collaborative Project.

Review

"Change in education and schooling comes in waves, and coding, computer science, and computational thinking represent the next very big wave. This very readable book will introduce teachers, parents and students to the future." Author: Dr Neil MacNeill, PhD, EdD.

This book will help a lot of educators take their first steps toward bringing
high quality programming experiences to their students. It offers clear examples
and good strategies supported by research and best practices. Author: Sylvia Martinez

Wondering whether this book is for you? Check out the "dos and don’ts" of
Chapter 5 and then take them to heart. I did! Author: Dr. James Cohoon

This book is so clear and so encouraging. I recommend it to my Girls Excelling
in Math and Science (GEMS) leaders as we work to incorporate more
computer science into our activities. The authors present a comprehensive
introduction to computing in a way that’s useful, readable, and fun. Author: Laura Reasoner Jones

Edition details

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1506341284
• ISBN 13: 9781506341286
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208