Scalable game design and the development of a checklist for getting computational thinking into public schools

SIGCSE'10 - Proceedings of the 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 265-269

  Repenning, Alexander ^a   Webb, David ^b   Ioannidou, Andri ^c  

^a University of Colorado   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c AGENTSHEETS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational science; Computational thinking; Game design

Indexed keywords

AUTHORING TOOL; COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE; GAME DESIGN; NATIVE AMERICANS; NEW STRATEGY; PUBLIC SCHOOLS; REMOTE RURAL AREAS; SCALE-UP; SUMMER PROGRAM; TEACHER TRAINING;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; DESIGN; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; PERSONNEL TRAINING; RURAL AREAS; SCHOOL BUILDINGS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77952233213     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1734263.1734357     Document Type: Conference Paper

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