The state of CS Education

The state of CS Education Introduction: It’s not new!

Four rationales for CS education: you need to commit to what you want. 

• Job market
• Computational thinking
• Computational literacy
• Equity of participation

Computational thinking and CS in K-12

• What is CT?

• CT vs. CS. 

• CT: Broad and shallow, inclusive foundational (K-8)

• CS Narrow, focused

Implementation: 

• Cuban: Trojan horse vs. Schoolifying 

• CS is situated

• No easy solutions

• Identity matters, even in the process.

• Recursive process of educating community enough that they can participate. 

• Finding teachers

• Pedagogical content knowledge

Conclusion: Integration with educational makerspaces