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Making contact with the forgotten k-12 influence: are you smarter than your 5th grader?

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This paper is an experience report that describes a computer science based workshop titled Are You Smarter than YOUR 5th Grader? and targeted at fourth through sixth grade female students and parents. The novel approach of including parents as a pair programmer with the student is highlighted. Additionally, the paper probes the impact of this workshop and plans for revision and replication of future workshops.

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SIGCSE '10: Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
March 2010
618 pages
ISBN:9781450300063
DOI:10.1145/1734263
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  1. computer science education
  2. k-12 instruction
  3. pair programming
  4. parent involvement
  5. workshops

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