Staff

Herbert S. Lin, Chief Scientist
Enita Williams, Associate Program Officer
Shenae Bradley, Senior Project Assistant

Project Information

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Publications

The Report of a Workshop on Pedagogical Aspects of Computational Thinking summarizes insights and approaches from educators who have addressed computational thinking in their work with K-12 teachers and students and in settings for informal (non-school) education.

Report of a Workshop on the Scope and Nature of Computational Thinking presents a number of perspectives on the definition and applicability of computational thinking. For example, one idea expressed during the workshop is that computational thinking is a fundamental analytical skill that everyone can use to help solve problems, design systems, and understand human behavior, making it useful in a number of fields. Supporters of this viewpoint believe that computational thinking is comparable to the linguistic, mathematical and logical reasoning taught to all children. Various efforts have been made to introduce K-12 students to the most basic and essential computational concepts and college curricula have tried to provide a basis for life-long learning of increasingly new and advanced computational concepts and technologies. At both ends of this spectrum, however, most efforts have not focused on fundamental concepts. The book discusses what some of those fundamental concepts might be.