Computational Thinking Education in K-12

edited by Siu-Cheung Kong and Harold Abelson

Introduction to Computational Thinking Education in K--12 1
I A Multiplicity of Computational Thinkings 13
1 A Case for Why: Society, School, Self 15
2 Providing Students with Computational Literacy for Learning About Everything 29
3 Developing Computational Thinking Skills with Multiple Models and Representations 49
4 Toward a Theory (And Practice) of Multiple Computational Thinkings 71
5 Learning Computational Thinking in Phenomena-Based Co-Creation Projects: Perspectives from Finland 103
6 Computational Empowerment 121
II Computational Thinking and Artificial Intelligence Literacy in K--12 141
7 The Computational Thinking and Artificial Intelligence Duality 143
8 Artificial Intelligence Thinking in K--12 153
9 Preparing Children to be Conscientious Consumers and Designers of AI Technologies 181
III Computational Thinking and Physical Computing Education in K--12 207
10 Examining the Multidimensional Learning Affordances of Robotics for Computational Thinking and Science Inquiry 209
11 Toward a Research Agenda for Developing Computational Thinking Skills by Sense-Reason-Act Programming with Robots 229
12 Computational Thinking in the Interdisciplinary Robotic Game: The Charm of STEAM 245
Additional Readings on CT Education for K--12 271
Contributors 275
Index 277