@inproceedings{bd680362fbbf45f69d6f2c83a1526543,
title = "Creating an environment in which elementary educators can teach coding",
abstract = "Across the globe, there is an increasing push to incorporate coding into the entire K-12 curriculum - a shift which entails enormous challenges. This paper presents preliminary findings of an approach we are developing which addresses a key challenge associated with teaching coding, namely how to enable teachers with minimal coding backgrounds to effectively teach coding. The model we are developing provides online real-time tech support to teachers, thereby lowering the technical barriers to coding instruction. The genesis of this approach emerged from a year-long after school coding club run by the authors for elementary school students. This was followed by a pilot study involving gifted students in multiple elementary schools.",
keywords = "3D printing, Coding, Computational thinking, Coordinate systems, Functional programming, LEGO, Math, Minecraft, SML",
author = "Betty Love and Cindy Corritore and Victor Winter and Davina Faimon",
year = "2016",
month = jun,
day = "21",
doi = "10.1145/2930674.2936008",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of IDC 2016 - The 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
pages = "643--648",
booktitle = "Proceedings of IDC 2016 - The 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children",
note = "15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2016 ; Conference date: 21-06-2016 Through 24-06-2016",
}