CT+resources

= = Articles and resources:

CT defined:

 * Carnegie Mellon, CT defined
 * Article: Wing 2006, Seminal Work
 * Article: Wing 2008
 * Article: Guzdial 2008
 * List of Talks in which CT is defined
 * CT across the Disciplines - Pat Phillips
 * [|Beyond Computational Thinking] Viewpoint article
 * [|CT-DigitalAgeSkillforEveryone.pdf]
 * IAE-pedia definition

CT curriculum development in STEM courses:

 * Lu 2009: Examples of Language Use and Progression of Topics
 * Repenning 2010: Checklist for K-12 CT lesson properties
 * Gal-Ezer 1998 - Ways to connect CT curriculum to wider implications and domains
 * [|Connecting with Computer Science] course website, UBC undergraduate course about learning how computational thinking and computational tools inform the way we interact with the world, and learn about computational and computer science through examples in biology, psychology, and the arts. These topics and activities can be modified to fit into high school curriculum.

CS10K (new AP-CT course) development:

 * Click here for resources


 * CT in STEM**
 * physics

Local Resources:

 * Click here

Motivation for students to choose CT:

 * NYtimes article
 * Yardi, S. & Bruckman, A. (2007). //What is computing?: bridging the gap between teenagers’ perceptions and graduate students’ experiences.//
 * NYtimes article about CS for non-majors
 * Additional resources

**Broadening Participation:**

 * For a good starting place for articles on broadening participation in CT this topic (see the ‘Readings’ section).
 * CSTA Report on obstacles and solutions
 * NSF BPC (Broadening Participation in Computing)
 * Kao 2000 - linking stereotypes to expectations by race and ethnicity
 * Heemskerk 2009: Inclusiveness in CT education
 * Gutstein 2007 - UofI Chicago Campus Faculty.
 * Researches how to teach math in K-12 as weapon for social justice and equity.
 * Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
 * Engineering 'Packaging' to increase recruitment/retention
 * Center for Minorities and People w/ Disabilities in IT - list of reference articles
 * Schofield, J. (1995). //Computers and classroom culture.// New York: Cambridge
 * University Press.
 * Noguera, P. (2003). //City Schools and the American Dream.// New York: Teachers College Press.
 * Horwitz, S. & Rodger, S. (2009). // Using Peer-Led Team Learning to Increase Participation and Success of Under-represented Groups in Introductory Computer Science. //// SIGCSE’09, // March 3–7, 2009
 * For additional articles on gender & CS, click here

AP Course Equity AP stats by subject area for IL IL 'report card' -- numbers are worse here, but no references! IL SAT scores by demographic

**Books:**
Laptops and Literacy: Learning in the Wireless Classroom - Mark Warschauer (2006) - Reveals the lesser impact and use of 1-to-1 laptops programs for students of low SES

[|Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas] - Seymor Papert (1980) - Seminal book in the comptuers-as-tools-for-learning space

[|Changing Minds: Computers, Learning, and Literacy] - Andrea diSessa (2000) - Introduces idea of computers enabling a new computational literacy which has implications across all subjects

**Books on Inequities, norms, expectations:**

 * Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing - Jane Margolis (2008)
 * Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing - Jan Margolis (2003)
 * City Schools and the American Dream: Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education - Pedro A. Noguera (2003)
 * Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project - Robert P. Moses and Charles E. Cobb (2002)