Designing a blended module to teach pre-service teachers the basics of computational thinking

• In Event: Computational thinking and PBL

Short Description

In spring and fall semesters of 2019, we designed a blended module to teach pre-service teachers’ computational thinking. In each semester, we blended the online and on-campus sessions differently. Results of our comparison study showed that the traditional blended module had a better impact on pre-service teachers’ understanding and teaching self-efficacy of computational thinking than the flipped blended module. We will present and discuss the implications of this result with the audience in the presentation.

Authors

• Presenter: Shenghua Zha, University of South Alabama

• Contributor: Pamela R. Moore, University of South Alabama

• Contributor: Joe Gaston, University of South Alabama

• Contributor: Yi Jin, Kennesaw State University

• Contributor: Rebecca Wheeler, University of South Alabama

• Presenter: Shane Mitchell, University of South Alabama