Fontenot, A. D., & Burgess, R. A., & Subburaj, V. H., & Nash, D. J. (2013, June), Introducing 6-12 Grade Teachers and Students to Computational Thinking   Paper presented at 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia. 10.18260/1-2--19826

\bibitem{asee_peer_19826}
  Fontenot, A. D., \& Burgess, R. A., \& Subburaj, V. H., \& Nash, D. J. (2013, June), \emph{Introducing 6-12 Grade Teachers and Students to Computational Thinking }
  Paper presented at 2013 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia.
  10.18260/1-2--19826

A. Dean Fontenot, Richard A Burgess, Vinitha Hannah Subburaj M.S, and Debra J Nash.  "Introducing 6-12 Grade Teachers and Students to Computational Thinking ".  2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2013.  https://peer.asee.org/19826 Internet.  23 Feb, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_19826}
  A. Dean Fontenot, Richard A Burgess, Vinitha Hannah Subburaj M.S, and Debra J Nash.
  "Introducing 6-12 Grade Teachers and Students to Computational Thinking ".
  \emph{2013 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2013.
  https://peer.asee.org/19826 Internet.  23 Feb, 2025

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AB  - Introducing 6-12 Grade Teachers and Students to Computational ThinkingAbstractComputing disciplines have always struggled to increase student retentions rates. Creating interestingcurriculum to attract freshmen and help them learn has always been challenging. Computationalthinking has become a key concept to motivate students with problem solving strategies and has beenused across various fields irrespective of computing majors. This paper describes the vertical integrationof middle school and high school students with undergraduate students at a state university in acomputation thinking project. The activities were inter-connected; middle school students played therole of customers/end-users developing requirements, high school students played the role of designersand undergraduate students played the role of developers actually implementing the software system.One of the main themes of this project was the importance of ethics in computational thinking. To thisend, teachers were provided with information and coaching on how to teach ethics. Students wereprovided with introductory ethics discussions and given opportunities to identify and reflect upon theethical dimensions of computational thinking in the context of several of the aforementioned activities.This paper will briefly highlight and evaluate the ethics pedagogy adopted in this project. The resultsobtained by carrying out the computational thinking activities among a diversified group of studentswith varying knowledge and expertise levels were promising. The vertical integration had challenges andresearch components tied together, which, when unveiled, will attract new students to computingdisciplines.Keyword: retention rate, computational thinking, vertical integration, ethics
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