No Fear Coding: K-5 Computational Thinking

Since the 2020 State of Computer Science Education, 31 states have adopted or revised 50 policies, including 21 states that continued funding for computer science education. As more states have adopted more policies, new adoption has slowed in favor of implementing and revising policies that passed in previous years.

Earn as you learn!  This course is approved for CEUs from an accredited university!

Highlights from the past year include:

• Alabama has adopted all nine policies, joining Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Maryland, and Nevada.
• Several states have adopted seven or eight policies, including Georgia, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
• Thirty-two states have put over half of the policies into place. • Montana, Oklahoma, and Tennessee each adopted two new policies since the last report.
• All 50 states and DC now allow computer science to count towards a graduation requirement. Three states now require all students to take computer science before graduation (Arkansas, South Carolina, and Nevada).
• More than $65M was allocated by states for computer science education in FY 2022, more than any previous year.

In adding computer science standards and assessing progress towards them, it is essential that our K-5 teachers find a way of integrating these concepts into their core content areas. With instructional minutes being a fixed variable, they simply cannot add another separate subject area into their already instructionally packed day. This course will help inspire the integration of computer science and computational thinking into core content. This intentional integration will deepen the core content learning.

This course is available for an individual educators or for groups. 

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