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Designing for Student-Directedness: How K-12 Teachers Utilize Peers to Support Projects
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Brennan, Karen; Blum-Smith, Sarah; Peters, Laura; Kang, Jane – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2022
Student-directed projects--projects in which students have individual control over what they create and how to create it--are a promising practice for supporting the development of conceptual understanding and personal interest in K-12 computer science classrooms. In this article, we explore a central (and perhaps counterintuitive) design…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Cooperative Learning, Active Learning