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Lui, Debora; Kafai, Yasmin; Litts, Breanne; Walker, Justice; Widman, Sari – Computer Science Education, 2020
Background and Context: Physical computing involves complex negotiations of multiple, on and off-screen tasks, which calls for research on how to best structure collaborative work to ensure equitable learning. Objective: We focus on how pairs self-organized their multi-domain tasks in physical computing, and how their social interactions supported…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, High School Students, Computer Science Education, Programming
Margolis, Jane; Goode, Joanna; Ryoo, Jean J. – Educational Leadership, 2015
Computer science programs are too often identified with a narrow stratum of the student population, often white or Asian boys who have access to computers at home. But because computers play such a huge role in our world today, all students can benefit from the study of computer science and the opportunity to build skills related to computing. The…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Computer Science, High School Students, Programming
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Philip, Thomas M.; Olivares-Pasillas, Maria C.; Rocha, Janet – Cognition and Instruction, 2016
Data visualizations are now commonplace in the public media. The ability to interpret and create such visualizations, as a form of data literacy, is increasingly important for democratic participation. Yet, the cross-disciplinary knowledge and skills needed to produce and use data visualizations and to develop data literacy are not fluidly…
Descriptors: Race, Cultural Literacy, Data, Visualization
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Van Name, Barry – Tech Directions, 2012
There is a battlefield where no quarter is given, no mercy shown, but not a single drop of blood is spilled. It is an arena that witnesses the bringing together of high-tech design and manufacture with the outpouring of brute force, under the remotely accessed command of some of today's brightest students. This is the world of battling robots, or…
Descriptors: Females, Engineering, Computer Assisted Design, High School Students