Poster #25 - Computational Thinking as Public Experiences: The Role of Professional Vision

• In Event: 47.099 - MTCC Poster Session 11
  In Poster Session: 47.099-5 - Learning Sciences SIG Poster Session

Abstract

Public computation has recently been proposed as a new form of open-ended, public learning environments where visitors (anyone) can directly access, modify and create complex and authentic scientific work through interacting with open source computing platforms. However, such ill-structured spaces exist in ways that do not provide easy opportunities for assessment of learning. This paper attempts to illustrate how we can productively analyze computational thinking in such ill-structured, heterogeneous, informal spaces by illustrating how the participants’ professional vision (Goodwin, 1994) shapes their experiences of computing and computational thinking.

Authors

• Stephanie Hladik, University of Calgary

• Jordan Kidney, University of Calgary

• Marie-Claire Shanahan, University of Calgary

• Pratim Sengupta, University of Calgary