Work in progress — Eliciting integrated understandings of high school STEM curricula through programming

Author

Freudenthal, Eric ; Ogrey, Alexandria ; Gonzalez, Rebeca Q.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

27-30 Oct. 2010

Abstract

We describe our early investigation of the integration of educational modules originally developed for a college-level entering students program (ESP) titled “Media Propelled Computational Thinking” (MPCT) into high school science, math, and engineering/technology courses. Primary objectives of MPCT include introducing students to imperative programming and reinforcement of foundational mathematical concepts. This report describes this evolving integration including early informal experiments and potential extensions using programming functions of ubiquitous graphing calculators.

Keywords

computer science education; educational courses; programming; college-level entering students program; educational modules; high school STEM curricula; high school engineering-technology courses; high school math courses; high school science courses; imperative programming; media propelled computational thinking; ubiquitous graphing calculator; Calculators; Computational modeling; Concrete; Context; Educational institutions; Programming profession;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6261-2

Electronic_ISBN

0190-5848

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2010.5673203

Filename

5673203