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Making Sense of Models (home page)

This is a landing page for all 6th grade Making Sense of Models (MSM) units.

COVID-19 Modelling Challenge

Learn basic StarLogo Nova skills then use those skills to customize your model to reflect how Coronavirus spreads. To that model, you can add different strategies and study the impact of the strategies on containing COVID-19’s spread.

Developing a framework for computational thinking from a disciplinary perspective (2018)

Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Thinking
Education 2018. Hong Kong: The Education University of Hong Kong.

Profile of a CT Integration Specialist (2017)

Computational Thinking Education 2017 conference

Preparing STEM Teachers to offer Computer Science for All (2017)

ACM SIGCSE 2017

Reclaiming the roots of CT (2016)

CSTA Voice 2016

Integrating Computational Thinking Across the K-8 Curriculum (2014)

ACM InRoads (2014)

Application of the Occupational Analysis of Computational Thinking-Enabled STEM Professionals as a Program Assessment Tool (2012)

Journal of Computational Science Education (2012)

Assessing Youth's Computational Thinking (2011)

AERA conference proceedings 2011

Computational Thinking for Youth in Action (2011)

This is an early paper of Computational Thinking that has a lot of traction. It's where we first describe the Use-Modify-Create trajectory.

An Example of CT in the Workplace

This is an example of how a computer modeler uses various aspect of computational thinking while designing, creating and using a computer model as a tool to think with.

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