Priorities, Purpose, Processes: Negotiating Coherence for Integrating Mobile App Development Into Non–Computer Science Subjects

• In Event: Supporting Learners in Computing Education

Abstract

Policymakers and school leaders face a computer science (CS) teacher shortage as they attempt to expand K-12 CS courses in schools to increase under-represented minority and female participation in CS. To address the shortage, non-CS teachers in a researcher-practitioner partnership member district have sought to integrate into non-CS classes a curriculum in which students create mobile apps to serve their communities. As part of a DBIR needs assessment, this paper describes one of four district teachers negotiating a coherent instructional vision for integrating app development into his civics class. His instructional vision emerges from the relationship among his classroom learning priorities, perceived app purposes, and chosen processes for developing apps and teaching CS. Findings can inform continued instructional vision development.

Authors

• Bernardo Feliciano, University of Massachusetts - Lowell
  Presenting Author

• Elizabeth A. Zumpe, University of Oklahoma
  Non-Presenting Author

• Fred Martin, University of Texas - San Antonio
  Non-Presenting Author

• Lijun Ni, University at Albany - SUNY
  Non-Presenting Author

• Gillian Bausch
  Non-Presenting Author