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Infusing computational thinking into the middle- and high-school curriculum

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Frances Spaltro,

Cynthia Jurisson,

Colin Rennert-May,

Brian WildemanAuthors Info & Claims

ITiCSE '12: Proceedings of the 17th ACM annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

Pages 22 - 27

https://doi.org/10.1145/2325296.2325306

Published: 03 July 2012 Publication History

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In recent years there have been significant efforts to revamp undergraduate and K-12 curricula to emphasize computational thinking, a term popularized by Jeannette Wing in 2006. We describe work introducing and enhancing computational thinking activities and assessments in the middle- and high-school curriculum at the University of Chicago Lab Schools. In total six courses were altered as a part of the Computational Thinking across the Curriculum Project: middle-school and high-school computer science, and high-school Latin, graphic arts, English, and history. We detail the modifications to the curriculum and discuss the successes and challenges of the project.

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