Digital Promise Challenge Institute

Note: The Computational Thinking Pathways guided activities are presented as a sequence for developing inclusive pathways to ensure all students in a school or district have access to and develop competency in computational thinking and computer science. It is highly recommended that participants interested in this session also have attended CT Pathways Session #1.

Session #2 delves further into the "Why?" of CS & CT – what is your school’s (and the wider district’s) rationale for offering computer science and computational thinking learning across K-12 grade levels?  Participants are encouraged to collaboratively articulate their own schools’ and district’s reasons for CS and CT, compare these rationales with those of other districts, and then link these various reasons to particular districtwide stakeholders. What are the reasons that will best engage students and teachers? Administrators? Parents/ families and the wider business community?