Computing in rural America: Developing K-8 coding pathways for Kentucky Appalachia

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Tough As Nails ISTE Presentation.pdf(8.44 MB)
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2020-11
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Digital Promise
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What are the technical (and cultural) challenges of bringing computational thinking to small-town school districts? The overwhelming majority of computing initiatives focus nearly exclusively on urban/suburban districts. This presentation shares the challenges/promises of such efforts in an area economically devastated by the departure of the coal industry.
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Kentucky Appalachia, computational thinking, community cultural wealth, culturally responsive rural education
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12265/144
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Computational Thinking