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Fri 28 Feb 2025 15:45 - 16:03 at Meeting Rooms 306-307 - K-12 Instruction

Computer Science (CS) education is becoming increasingly important in K-12 schooling, with some U.S. states now requiring educators to integrate CS into various disciplinary courses. The [project name] project supports the integration of CS into Social Studies (SS) classes in rural middle schools. Twenty-five teachers, working mostly in pairs (one SS teacher and one CS or instructional technology resource teacher), participated in professional learning workshops and received coaching support to design and implement integrated lessons that address both SS and CS learning standards. The current analysis examines the corpus of year-end, project-based integrated CS-SS lessons (n=8), to illuminate how integrated CS-SS lessons can address learning goals across multiple disciplines. Data sources included teacher-created lesson materials, classroom observations/video, implementation logs, teacher interviews, and student work. Utilizing a framework created to characterize integrated CS-SS lessons, analysis of lessons (as designed and enacted) focuses on three dimensions: (1) depth of CS concepts, (2) integration of CS-SS, and (3) alignment of instructional tools/resources with integration objectives. All lessons addressed standards-aligned CS concepts such as variables, conditionals, branching, and computational thinking skills (e.g., decomposition), and a variety of SS topics including the Civil War, the Great Migration, and personal finance. However, lessons varied in the extent to which they leveraged students’ CS knowledge to explicitly enhance SS learning (or vice versa). This analysis suggests there are multiple approaches to using CS concepts to support disciplinary learning, including creating new learning experiences to explore social studies content.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Fri 28 Feb

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15:45 - 17:00
K-12 InstructionPapers at Meeting Rooms 306-307
15:45
18m
Talk
Bridging Disciplines: Integrating Computer Science and Social Studies in Rural Middle SchoolsK12
Papers
Debra Bernstein TERC, Eric Hochberg TERC, Santiago Gasca TERC, Michael Berson University of South Florida, Kristen Franklin CodeVA, Perry Shank CodeVA
16:03
18m
Talk
CS Concepts and Contextual Factors in Integrated Computing Activities in U.S. SchoolsK12
Papers
Marya Rahimi Georgia State University, Lauren Margulieux Georgia State University, Erin Anderson Georgia State University
16:22
18m
Talk
RAD: A Framework to Support Youth in Critiquing AIK12
Papers
Jaemarie Solyst Carnegie Mellon University, Emily Amspoker Carnegie Mellon University, Ellia Yang Carnegie Mellon University, Motahhare Eslami Carnegie Mellon University, Jessica Hammer Carnegie Mellon University, Amy Ogan Carnegie Mellon University
16:41
18m
Talk
Evaluating GPT for use in K-12 Block Based CS Instruction Using a Transpiler and Prompt EngineeringK12
Papers
David Gonzalez-Maldonado University of Chicago, Jonathan Liu University of Chicago, Diana Franklin University of Chicago