Computational Thinking in Science - a new article by Peter Denning In this article, Peter Denning recounts the origin of computational science, a meld of computer science and science. He states "scientists who used computers found themselves routinely designing new ways to advance science. They became computational designers as well as experimenters and theoreticians" and "computational thinking emerged from within scientific fields—it was not imported from computer science.
Webinar on CT in interdisciplinary learning Project GUTS' director, Irene Lee, was a guest speaker on a webinar on "Unpacking CT and its role in Interdisciplinary Learning" Published on http://stelar.edc.org/events/stelar-webinar-unpacking-computational-thinking-cts-role-interdisciplinary-learning
Data Science lesson for Hour of Code Project GUTS, in collaboration with the MIT AppInventor team and University of Massachusetts Lowell, have developed a Data Science activity for this year's Hour of Code. It's geared towards students in 6th grade and older and features crowd-sourced data collection through the Pop Culture app (on an Android phone) and data analysis in
Hello World magazine for computing educators Here's a new online magazine called "Hello World" from the UK's Raspberry Pi, Computing At School and BCS Academy, with support from British Telecom.
Denning weighs in on Computational Thinking Peter Denning weighs in on the current state of Computational Thinking. He attempts to answer three questions: What is Computational Thinking? How do we measure students' computational abilities? and Is computational thinking good for everyone? This is a good read and thoughtful presentation of the topic.
Learning to Think Like a Computer This New York Times Education Life article by Laura Pappano gives a well-rounded view of the integration of Computational Thinking in K-12. Pappano does a great job of making the link between CT terms, how we know them in everyday life, and why they are important in computing. See if you agree....
Computational Thinking in Teacher Education Project GUTS was highlighted in a new article on Computational Thinking in Teacher Education. The authors, Aman Yadav, Chris Stephenson, and Hai Hong, state "One example of embedding computational thinking in science classrooms is Project GUTS (Growing Up Thinking Scientifically), which highlights what computational thinking looks like for students using three domains: modeling and simulation, robotics, and game design.
Don't You Dare Try to Teach Science Without Building Models In this January article in Wired by Rhett Allain, the author states that science is about building models and thus science classes should be framed around building models. Do you agree? https://www.wired.com/2017/01/dont-dare-try-teach-science-without-building-models/
