K-12 Summit on Computer Science

In recent years, there has been a growing enthusiasm and awareness of the need for computer science (CS) education opportunities and particularly a need to engage students in CS ideas and practices to help them understand how computing influences our world. Computational thinking (CT) has been suggested as a vehicle to achieve this goal by drawing and applying fundamental concepts from computer science to other domains. In this way, CT can be infused early and often throughout K-12 curricula, better preparing students for CT and CS in life. In this presentation, we will share how the CT4EDU project has been training teachers to bring CT/CS into their elementary classrooms using unplugged and plugged approaches so our youngest learners have access to these powerful ideas.