Teaching Coding K-12: Teaching Coding in K-12 Schools - Research and Application (book) |
Website | https://www.keaneonlearning.com.au/teachingcodingk-12] |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=teachingcodingk12 |
Submission deadline | March 31, 2022 |
About This Book
The largest commercial enterprises in the world are digital. For school students to become productive and independent citizens of this digital era, they need to develop skills throughout schooling. Teaching Coding is clearly focused on key skills for this digital apprenticeship. It provides a progression path for students aged from birth to 18 years, identifying key skills. Based on the global perspectives and research at each stage, it shows how these findings can be applied in the classroom. Teaching coding to students in K-12 has been a skillset that has been debated across educational jurisdictions globally for some time. There are examples of schools that are teaching coding to students in engaging and relevant ways delivered via well thought out compulsory curriculums. However, there are others where coding is not mandated in the curriculum and is taught in an ad-hoc manner. There is also an increasing school of thought that teaching coding is a skill that is already obsolete, and the focus should be on computational thinking. The debate is a serious one and requires a clearly defined thematic response with evidence on all sides of the argument presented rationally.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal, conference or book. We are looking for:
- Chapters We are looking for short chapters for a research book (10 pages maximum). Each chapter will follow the chapter template. We would like to include the author’s own research as much as possible. We would be looking at how coding/programming and computational thinking is taught to K-12 students globally and what the emphasis is. Also, we would like to explore the various coding environments that are used globally to teach programming at different age levels within the K-12 space.
Indicative chapter structure:
Page 1 | Abstract/Keywords |
Page 2 | Introduction – An example problem in this domain: Global perspectives on the skill set needed |
Page 3 | Local research vignette or literature synthesis |
Pages 4-6 | Key findings from research and examples of applying these in schools |
Page 7 | Evidence for assessing mastery of achievement |
Page 8 | Facilitating diagram and links/2 sentence descriptions of three supporting resources (embodying the research findings). |
Pages 9-10 | References |
PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR DRAFT CHAPTER THROUGH EASYCHAIR BY 9th FEBRUARY 2022
All authors are requested to take on a reviewing role in February-March 2022 - for up to two other chapters.
Committees
Editorial Team
- A/Prof Therese Keane: Swinburne University – tkeane@swin.edu.au
- A/ProfAndrew Fluck (retd): University of Tasmania – Andrew.Fluck@utas.edu.au
Publication
Teaching Coding K-12 book will be published by Springer Nature
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Andrew Fluck or Therese Keane
Please also so our companion website at: https://www.keaneonlearning.com.au/teachingcodingk-12