The Next Generation Science Standards call for science teachers to bring more “computational thinking” into middle school science. Two pilot projects at the American Educational Research Association ...

It's high time for students to move beyond an hour of coding exercises and learn computational thinking. That's the message of a new report from Digital Promise that examines what's important to know ...

I’m part of the post-Watergate generation of journalism school graduates, and I’m watching my peers struggle to master digital tools in an effort to stay relevant to an industry that is shifting under ...

Society now demands individuals have computer skills to be successful. Therefore, it is imperative that teachers find ways to integrate computational thinking into the classroom. While teachers have ...

In paraphrasing Jeannette M. Wing’s definition of computational thinking, it deals with providing solutions to complex problems, creating effective systems, and having a good understanding of how ...

What does navigating the New York City subway have to do with teaching computer science? More than most teachers might at first suspect. Like coding, analog maps of the subway can be used to teach ...

When middle schoolers chatted with ELIZA, a 1960s chatbot, they uncovered how AI really works (and doesn’t). Along the way, ...

Version 1: Given the following statement: "There are six times as many students as professors at this university." Write an equation that represents the above statement. Use S for the number of ...

Mathematica creator Stephen Wolfram has spent nearly 50 years arguing that simple computational rules underlie everything from animal patterns to the laws of physics. In his 2023 TED talk, he makes ...