Using scaffolded examples to teach computational thinking concepts

Authors:
Heidi Webb;Mary Beth Rosson
Affiliations:
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA;The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
Venue:
Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
2013

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Abstract

In this paper we describe a set of computing activities that were used in an outreach enrichment program for middle school girls. The computing activities used a combination of scaffolded exam-ples and minimalist workbooks to introduce and support interaction with computational thinking (CT) concepts, including problem solving, abstraction and basic computational vocabulary. We describe the activities briefly, followed by a discussion of the girls' experiences, drawing primarily from interviews conducted at the end of each activity.