PUBLICATIONS
Published January 18, 2023
Computational thinking in a bilingual kindergarten classroom: Emergent ideas for teaching across content areas
By Gladys Krause, Maggie Vanderberg, Eping Hung, and Eva Skuratowicz
Our study documents how a Spanish-English bilingual elementary teacher learned computational thinking while working to incorporate it into mathematics and language arts lessons in a bilingual classroom. We classified the elements of the teacher’s process into two practices: intentional and unintentional use of computational thinking. Intentional use of computational thinking…
Published March 5, 2021
I Felt Like We Were Actually Going Somewhere: Adapting Summer Professional Development for Elementary Teachers to a Virtual Experience During COVID-19
By Eva Skuratowicz, Maggie Vanderberg, Eping Hung, Gladys Krause, Dominique Bradley, and Joseph Wilson
In fall 2019, the National Science Foundation awarded Southern Oregon University a two-year Computer Science for All Researcher Practitioner Partnership grant focused on integrating computational thinking (CT) into the K’5 instruction of general elementary and elementary bilingual teachers. This experience report highlights the process of transitioning one essential component…
July 27, 2023
Integrating Computational Thinking Into Kindergarten Lessons
Presented at the The National Network of Education Research-Practice Partnerships (NNERPP) Annual Forum
This session highlighted the value of collaborative routines in RPPs, sharing examples from three teams and inviting participants to engage in a facilitated workshop activity to create their own document of collaborative routines.
April 16, 2023
Integrating Computational Thinking Into Kindergarten Lessons
Presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting
Schools districts across the country are starting to recognize the need to integrate computing curriculum into K-12 education. Although programming and robotics classes have been somewhat successful in the middle and high school grades, little is known about how to prepare elementary students for computational studies. Our paper contributes to filling this gap. We investigate how unplugged computational thinking (CT) can be effectively integrated…