Programming in K-12 science classrooms

Abstract

Introducing students to visual programming as a pathway to text-based programming.

Teaching Teachers to Think Like Engineers Using NetLogo

“…This study shows how K12 teachers use CS and NetLogo using during 3 days of a 16-day PD called RAMPED (which stands for Robotics, Applied Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering Design). Following Sengupta, Dickes, Farris, Karan, Martin, and Wright (2015), the authors of this paper ask, "How can K12 science teachers, who may have little or no programming experience, teach such classes?" The authors used PD, and consequently, the research question inquired:…”

“…Secondly, another major literature theme explores K12 student technology use with CS interactions (Basu, Dickes, Kinnebrew, Sengupta, & Biswas, 2013;Berland & Reiser, 2011;Sengupta, Dickes, Farris, Karan, Martin, & Wright, 2015;Svihla & Linn, 2012;Vattam, Goel, Rugaber, Hmelo-Silver, Jordan, Gray, & Sinha, 2011). Ultimately, there are a plethora of CS projects for researchers to explore with K12 teachers and students by using NetLogo (or other approaches that use Arduinos or Raspberry Pis which the K12 teachers explored in other aspects of the RAMPED PD).…”

“…In the third theme, researchers show extensive examples of K12 teachers encouraging the use of CS in curriculum and instruction (Basu, Dickes, Kinnebrew, Sengupta, & Biswas, 2013;Blikstein, 2013;Borgman, Abelson, Dirks, Johnson, Koedinger, … & Smith, 2008;Chiu & Wu, 2009;Clark, Nelson, Sengupta, & D'Angelo, 2009;Dalke, Cassidy, Grobstein, & Blank, 2007;Donnelly, Linn, & Ludvigsen, 2014;Grover & Pea, 2013;Hashem & Mioduser, 2011;Jacobson & Wilensky, 2006;Klasnja-Milicevic, Vesin, Ivanovic, & Budimac, 2011;Levy & Wilensky, 2009;Maroulis, Guimera, Petry, Stringer, Gomez, Amaral, & Wilensky, 2010;Pea & Collins, 2008;Pathak, Kim, Jacobson, & Zhang, 2011;Sengupta, Dickes, Farris, Karan, Martin, & Wright, 2015;Sengupta, Kinnebrew, Basu, Biswas, & Clark, 2013;Sengupta & Wilensky, 2009;Shen, Lei, Chang, & Namdar, 2014;Wilensky, Brady, & Horn, 2014;Wilensky & Papert, 2010). The Task Force on Cyberlearning identified "directions for leveraging networked computing and communications technology.…”

Interactive Web Notebooks Using the Cloud to Enable CS in K-16+ Classrooms and PDs

“…ants following pheromone trails, birds flocking, atoms binding, behavior of light, etc.). The next major theme in the literature explores technology use for K-12 students with CS interactions (Basu, Dickes, Kinnebrew, Sengupta, & Biswas, 2013;Berland & Reiser, 2011;Sengupta, Dickes, Farris, Karan, Martin, & Wright, 2015;Svihla & Linn, 2012;Vattam, Goel, Rugaber, Hmelo-Silver, Jordan, Gray, & Sinha, 2011). Ultimately, there is a plethora of CS projects for researchers to explore with K-12 teachers and students.…”

“…Third, there are extensive references to K-12 teachers encouraging use of CS in curriculum and instruction (Basu, Dickes, Kinnebrew, Sengupta, & Biswas, 2013;Blikstein, 2013;Borgman, Abelson, Dirks, Johnson, Koedinger, Linn, … & Smith, 2008;Chiu & Wu, 2009;Clark, Nelson, Sengupta, & D'Angelo, 2009;Dalke, Cassidy, Grobstein, & Blank, 2007;Donnelly, Linn, & Ludvigsen, 2014;Grover & Pea, 2013;Hashem & Mioduser, 2011;Jacobson & Wilensky, 2006;Klašnja-Milićević, Vesin, Ivanovic, & Budimac, 2011;Levy & Wilensky, 2009;Maroulis, Guimera, Petry, Stringer, Gomez, Amaral, & Wilensky, 2010;Pea & Collins, 2008;Pathak, Kim, Jacobson, & Zhang, 2011;Sengupta, Dickes, Farris, Karan, Martin, & Wright, 2015;Sengupta, Kinnebrew, Basu, Biswas, & Clark, 2013;Sengupta & Wilensky, 2009;Shen, Lei, Chang, & Namdar, 2014;Wilensky, Brady, & Horn, 2014;Wilensky & Papert, 2010). The Task Force on Cyberlearning identified "directions for leveraging networked computing and communications technology.…”