Connected code : why children need to learn programming / Yasmin B. Kafai and Quinn Burke.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on digital media and learningPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]Description: xviii, 181 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780262027755 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0262027755 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QA 76.9 .C659 K34 2014
Contents:
The comeback of coding -- Connected learning -- From code to applications -- From tools to communities -- From Scratch to Remix -- From screens to tangibles -- Connected teaching -- Coding for all.
Summary: Programming is often promoted in K-12 schools as a way to encourage "computational thinking" -- which has now become the umbrella term for understanding what computer science has to contribute to reasoning and communicating in an ever-increasingly digital world. In Connected Code, Yasmin Kafai and Quinn Burke argue that although computational thinking represents an excellent starting point, the broader conception of "computational participation" better captures the twenty-first-century reality. Computational participation moves beyond the individual to focus on wider social networks and a DIY culture of digital "making."
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-171) and index.

The comeback of coding -- Connected learning -- From code to applications -- From tools to communities -- From Scratch to Remix -- From screens to tangibles -- Connected teaching -- Coding for all.

Programming is often promoted in K-12 schools as a way to encourage "computational thinking" -- which has now become the umbrella term for understanding what computer science has to contribute to reasoning and communicating in an ever-increasingly digital world. In Connected Code, Yasmin Kafai and Quinn Burke argue that although computational thinking represents an excellent starting point, the broader conception of "computational participation" better captures the twenty-first-century reality. Computational participation moves beyond the individual to focus on wider social networks and a DIY culture of digital "making."

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