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Co-Designing and Implementing a 4th Grade Robotics and Coding Event: Preservice and Inservice Teacher Perspectives Cover

Co-Designing and Implementing a 4th Grade Robotics and Coding Event: Preservice and Inservice Teacher Perspectives

Open Access
|Nov 2024

Figures & Tables

Table 1

Inservice partner teacher demographics

NameOverview
AdanAdan is a Mexican-American man with 17 years of experience teaching 4th grade at Market Street Elementary. He reported some self-taught CS/CT experience from watching videos and experimenting with CS/CT activities and curricula.
DesiDesi is a Mexican/Chinese-American man with 7 years of preK and elementary teaching experiences. At the time of the study, Desi noted that he had no previous CS/CT experience.
ChristineChristine is a Korean-American woman who has spent 16 years teaching kindergarten, first, fourth, and fifth grade students at different schools. She currently teaches 4th grade students at Market Street Elementary. She has past CS/CT experience by using code.org’s hour of code activities in her classroom.
SarahSarah is an Asian-American woman who has spent two years teaching 4th grade at Market Street Elementary. She reported having no CS/CT background or experience.
ClaudiaClaudia is a Mexican-American woman who spent 17 years teaching 4th grade at Market Street Elementary and is now the Title 1 coordinator and TSP advisor (targeted student population). She reported having no CS/CT background or experience.
Figure 1

Co-designed artifact for the “Design a Recycled Robot” activity

Figure 2

Co-designed artifact for the “Bee Bot Beach Cleanup” activity. Permission to use image granted by Bee-Bot®.

Figure 3

Co-designed artifact for the “Dash Bot Snow Shovel” activity

Figure 4

Teacher-designed Scaffolding Workbook for the Design a Recycled Robot Activity

Figure 5

Teacher-created collage of students engaged in CS activities

Figure 6

Student robots on display during the school’s STEM festival

Figure 7

Dong et al.’s 2024 “New model for developing computational thinking” (p. 211).

Language: English
Page range: 6 - 37
Submitted on: May 15, 2024
Accepted on: Oct 22, 2024
Published on: Nov 6, 2024
Published by: Virginia Tech
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2024 Mike Karlin, Cristina Stephany, Mahya Minaiy, Swati Mehta, Marcia Reed, Desiderio Acosta, Claudia Garcia-Valles, Christine Kim, Adan Gonzalez, Sarah Wong, published by Virginia Tech
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