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In August 2011, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt came to Scotland and expressed great concern at the state of Computer Science (CS) education in the UK's schools. This was a timely intervention: in Scotland, a new national curriculum is providing an opportunity to cement CS and computational thinking firmly within the curriculum and reverse a recent decline in uptake. To support teachers delivering this new curriculum and to provide students with an experience of CS that is accessible and exciting, the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) and British Computer Society (BCS) have commissioned three extensive resources that seek to deliver CS in a way that is relevant to students' own digital lives. These use a range of pedagogical approaches to teach computational thinking and enable meaningful interdisciplinary learning -- a cornerstone of Scotland's new curriculum.

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ITiCSE '13: Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

July 2013

384 pages

ISBN:9781450320788

DOI:10.1145/2462476

General Chair:
Janet Carter
University of Kent, UK
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Program Chairs:
Ian Utting
University of Kent, UK
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Alison Clear
Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, NZ

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Grover S(2017)Assessing Algorithmic and Computational Thinking in K-12: Lessons from a Middle School ClassroomEmerging Research, Practice, and Policy on Computational Thinking10.1007/978-3-319-52691-1_17(269-288)Online publication date: 25-Apr-2017
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