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On Pre-requisite Skills for Universal Computational Thinking Education.

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ICER '15: Proceedings of the eleventh annual International Conference on International Computing Education Research

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2787622.2787737

Published: 09 August 2015 Publication History

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Computational thinking (CT) has been hailed as valuable to everyone in the population, and if so, it should be taught to all. This research builds on existing work identifying pre-requisite skills for developing CT skills, referred to here as foundational CT skills. To add weight to the validity of the "CT for all" claim, this research attempts to determine whether foundational CT skills are of value to non-IT industry and for pupils elsewhere in their studies. The foundational CT skills will be trialled with pupils in the 5-8 yr age range and evaluated for their contribution to the pupils' ongoing education. Findings will be used to inform the curriculum and help to develop worthwhile computational thinking skills irrespective of the child's chosen career.

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ICER '15: Proceedings of the eleventh annual International Conference on International Computing Education Research

July 2015

300 pages

ISBN:9781450336307

DOI:10.1145/2787622

General Chair:
Brian Dorn
University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
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Monash University, Australia
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Quintin Cutts
University of Glasgow, UK

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