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Approaches to Assessing Computational Thinking

Contributed by ScratchEd Team, June 05, 2017

Using artifact-based interviews, design scenarios, and learner documentation for assessing computational thinking.

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Code Yourself! A free online course on Coursera

Contributed by Areti Manataki, January 27, 2015

A free online course that aims to teach young teenagers how to program using Scratch.

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Hour of Code, Unplugged.

Contributed by Mel McGee, December 09, 2014

You don't need computers to teach kids computational thinking, just imagination. Even if you have your Hour of Code project ready to go, you may want to keep this handy.

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New frameworks for studying and assessing the development of computational thinking

Contributed by Karen Brennan, July 01, 2012

AERA 2012 paper about assessing computational thinking

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Pensamiento Computacional, caja de herramientas

Contributed by EDUTEKA - Icesi, January 05, 2012

ISTE y la CSTA aunaron esfuerzos y elaboraron esta Caja de Herramientas que sugiere cómo trabajar el Pensamiento Computacional en los diferentes grados de la educación escolar.

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Reflections on Computation Thinking (for a blog)

Contributed by lisa radden, June 27, 2011

As part of my involvement in an evaluation of Scratch by the EDC, I was provided with a series of questions to use in the daily reflections my students wrote in our class blog.

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Computational Thinking Perspectives: May 2011 Webinar

Contributed by ScratchEd Team, May 24, 2011

Part 3 of 3 ScratchEd Webinars focused on computational thinking.

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Computational Thinking Practices: April 2011 Webinar

Contributed by ScratchEd Team, April 26, 2011

Part 2 of 3 ScratchEd Webinars focused on computational thinking.

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Computational Thinking Concepts: March 2011 Webinar

Contributed by ScratchEd Team, March 29, 2011

Part 1 of 3 ScratchEd Webinars focused on computational thinking.

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Four Questions About Scratch: January 2011 Webinar

Contributed by Karen Brennan, January 25, 2011

In this kickoff webinar, we shared our perspectives on the what, how, and why of Scratch.

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Computational Thinking

Contributed by Karen Brennan, July 28, 2010

Computational concepts, computational practices, learning approaches

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Teaching Computational Thinking through Musical Live Coding in Scratch

Contributed by Alex Ruthmann, October 30, 2009

This paper discusses how Scratch’s “musical live coding” capability can reinforce musical and computational concepts.

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Creative Computing Introduction

Contributed by Mitch Resnick, July 25, 2009

Introductory presentation at the Creative Computing workshop at MIT Media Lab (July 2009)

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How Do You Grade Projects When Using Programming: An Interview with Nicole Reitz-Larsen from Code.org

Contributed by ScratchEd Team, April 01, 2015

Nicole discusses some of the toughest teacher criticisms and questions related to programming and assessing coding projects.

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Scratch Math games lesson plan shared at ISTE 12 conference San Diego

Contributed by Sheena Vaidyanathan, June 30, 2012

Approx 500 6th graders in the Los Altos School district, California made math games using this lesson plan. Creativity, collaboration, computer science at work

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