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Bringing Grades K-5 to the Mainstream of Computer Science Education

Published: 24 February 2015 Publication History

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As awareness of computer science education grows in the general public, it is important to showcase computer science education as accessible for all grades K-12 and beyond. As panelists present the projects and research they've been conducting, we will highlight three overarching topics:
The importance of K-5 computer science education to educators of all grade levels,
Thoughts on why K-5 has traditionally been less prominent in the computer science education landscape, and
Strategies on how we, the computer science education community, can promote K-5 computer science education as worthwhile as 6-12+ computer science education.
Barriers to why K-5 computer science education is not as prominent as that in grades 6-12, such as scarcity of wide-spread curriculum or scarcity of research, will lead to panelists presenting how their work is rectifying this imbalance.
This session's panelists are pioneers and important thought leaders in the K-5 computer science education field. Panelists in this session are either producing research in the K-5 computer science education field or working at a large scale to promote or increase participation of K-5 students in computer science.

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[1]
"Women Who Choose Computer Science - What Really Matters," Google Corp. May 26, 2014, http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/us/edu/pdf/women-who-choose-what-really.pdf
[2]
Brennan, K. (2013). Learning computing through creating and connecting. IEEE Computer, Special Issue: Computing in Education.

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SIGCSE '15: Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
February 2015
766 pages
ISBN:9781450329668
DOI:10.1145/2676723
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Published: 24 February 2015

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  1. code.org
  2. computer science education
  3. elementary school
  4. k-5 curriculum
  5. outreach
  6. professional development
  7. scratch
  8. scratchjr

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  • (2018)Priming the PumpProceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education10.1145/3159450.3159560(723-728)Online publication date: 21-Feb-2018
  • (2015)New Horizons in the Assessment of Computer Science at School and BeyondProceedings of the 2015 ITiCSE on Working Group Reports10.1145/2858796.2858801(117-147)Online publication date: 4-Jul-2015

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