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What are we doing when we teach computing in schools?

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 58, Issue 5

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2742693

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Research on the cognitive, educational, and policy dimensions of teaching computing is critical to achieving "computer literacy."

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What are we doing when we teach computing in schools?
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Computing / technology policy
  2. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information science education

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May 2015

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DOI:10.1145/2766485

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