CS Education Research in K-12 Classrooms
In this presentation from the 2023 VEX Robotics Educators Conference, Dr. David Weintrop of the University of Maryland, shares his work focused on creating effective, engaging, and equitable computational learning experiences for all students, as well as ways to integrate computational thinking into curriculum. Dr. Weintrop talks about his research into block-based and text-based programming environments and their effect on student learning, as well as ways to support students moving from blocks to text more successfully, like utilizing Switch blocks in VEXcode as a scaffolding tool. He goes on to talk about a RoboMath project that used math to give context to explore computational thinking, and computational thinking as a context to explorate math concepts, through the vehicle of robotics in the classroom.
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