In the 21st century, computational thinking is a skill critical for all the world's citizens. Computing and technology is impacting all our lives and everyone needs to know how to formulate problems and express their solutions such that a computer can carry it out. In this Specialization you will both learn several block-based languages, but using novel approaches designed to make learning programming easier. Covers most CSTA Algorithms & Programming Standards for Algorithms, Variables, Control, and Modularity: Levels 1-3A.
The videos and reading material are extremely student friendly. assignments are well paced.Enjoyed the experiencing and sharpening new skills and knowledge.Thank you
All of these courses in this specialization were excellent. They gave great information and practice and clearly showed effective ways to bring them immediately into use in the classroom!
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This is a fantastic course! Professor Simon does a wonderful job of providing the necessary background and the opportunity to work with the concepts presented. The end of the course focuses on helpful teacher tips and debugging advice. In short, this course gives teachers a solid footing on the concepts covered and plenty of activities and tips for immediate use in K-12 classrooms.
The course is very detailed with specific instructions, hands on programming, questions in between, reading, ho it relates to Bloom's taxonomy, CSTA etc. I really enjoyed going through block programming and understanding how to take it to students. Thanks a ton!!
This course was excellent! It was not easy by any means, but it did pitch the difficulty appropriately for teachers who want to teach computational thinking and programming rather than becoming a professional programmer.
Fantastic course. Informative, useful and very well paced. Collected a couple of key resources that will use immediately. Opened my eyes to important issues. Expanded my pedagogical toolbox. Thank you.
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The videos and reading material are extremely student friendly. assignments are well paced.
Enjoyed the experiencing and sharpening new skills and knowledge.
Thank you
This specialization has a grading objective called "Collaborative Knowledge Construction," but the grading criteria are extremely opaque, and I repeatedly experienced failing the grade even though I took it seriously, which discouraged me.