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Best Practices for Developing Computational Thinking

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CSforALL is an umbrella term for a movement that seeks to bring engaging, culturally-relevant, and meaningful computer science to all students. It includes many avenues for learning – after-school outreach activities, once-a-year ''Hour of Code'' activities as well as formalized instruction in classes, led by an inspiring and well-prepared teacher. There is a perennial need to support pre-service and in-service teachers with curricula and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) so they can be successful in the classroom, but where to start?
Jeannette Wing has long evangelized computational thinking (CT) as a skill ''for everyone, everywhere. Computational thinking will be a reality when it is so integral to human endeavors it disappears as an explicit philosophy''. [2] We have found that CT offers a remarkable foundation of engagement, intuition, and grounding upon which to build higher-level computer science fluency. This panel brings together four seasoned experts who have collectively provided computer science and CT professional development to a vast multitude of teachers and students to share their best practices.

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[1]
Paul Curzon, Peter W. McOwan, Quintin I. Cutts, and Tim Bell. 2009. Enthusing & Inspiring with Reusable Kinaesthetic Activities. SIGCSE Bull. 41, 3 (jul 2009), 94--98. https://doi.org/10.1145/1595496.1562911
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Jeannette M. Wing. 2006. Computational Thinking. Commun. ACM 49, 3 (mar 2006), 33--35. https://doi.org/10.1145/1118178.1118215

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    CompEd 2023: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Global Computing Education Vol 2
    December 2023
    50 pages
    ISBN:9798400703744
    DOI:10.1145/3617650
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    2. K-12 professional development
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