Participate and share: Poster 
Participants will be able to discuss Computational Thinking (CT),
Participants will understand how it can be applied to a teacher’s daily life
Participants will see what it could look like in the classroom.
Participants will make connections between CT & their own lives/academic subjects.
Participants will get hands-on with PG for research and a KIBO Robot to experience CT in the context of early childhood robotics.
Proposing a poster session. We will have a large poster with the ability to point to certain areas to describe differet projects and tools.
2-3 minute opening story to set the stage.
Smaller 3-4 minute examples of
How this is applied in classrooms with student examples and images.
A section on the different tools we used and what we learned in the process
A section on what computational thinking is and how it could look in an elementary classroom.
A section on research and where they can go to learn more.
We will do peer to peer interactions and ask questions to engage in conversations so that the learning is both ways.
- dr. marina umashic bers and her books coding as a playground, blocks to robotics
-devtech research group out of Boston College
- Early childhood professional development chapter on EdTech
- Lifelong kindergarten by Mitch Resnick
- CSTA blog series on PTD by Angie and Amanda Strawhacker
- STEAM book by Amanda Sullivan on encouraging girls in STEM
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