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Supplemental Bibliography

Barron, Brigid. 2006. “Interest and Self-Sustained Learning as Catalysts of Development: A Learning Ecology Perspective.” Human Development 49:193-224.

Bell, Philip. 2005. “Reflections on the Cognitive and Social Foundations of Information and Communication Technology Fluency.” Paper read at Workshop on ICT Fluency and High School Graduation Outcomes, October 23-24, 2005, Washington, D.C.

Bell, Tim, Ian H. Witten, and Mike Fellows. 2006. Computer Science Unplugged: An Enrichment and Extension Programme for Primary-Aged Children. Canterbury, New Zealand: Computer Science Unplugged.

Blikstein, Paulo, and Uri Wilensky. 2007. “Bifocal Modeling: A Framework for Combining Computer Modeling, Robotics and Real-World Sensing.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA 2007), April 9-13, 2007, Chicago.

Blum, Lenore, and Thomas J. Cortina. 2007. “CS4HS: An Outreach Program for High School CS Teachers.” Paper read at ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education, March 7-10, 2007, Covington, Kentucky.

Blum, Lenore, and Richard J. Lipton. 2009. “Algorithms: Tiny Yet Powerful—and We Can’t Live Without Them.” Available at http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/ algorithms-tiny-yet-powerful/.

Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Computational Thinking. See http://www.cs.cmu. edu/~CompThink/.

Denning, Peter. 2004. “Great Principles in Computing Curricula.” Paper read at ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education, March 3-7, 2004, Norfolk, Virginia.

Denning, Peter. 2009. “Beyond Computational Thinking: A CACM IT Profession Column.” Communications of the ACM 52(6):28-30.

diSessa, Andrea. 2008. “Can Students Re-Invent Fundamental Scientific Principles?: Evaluating the Promise of New-Media Literacies.” In Children’s Learning in a Digital World, edited by T. Willoughby and E. Wood. Oxford, United Kingdom: Blackwell Publishing.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Supplemental Bibliography." National Research Council. 2010. Report of a Workshop on the Scope and Nature of Computational Thinking. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12840.
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diSessa, Andrea. 2005. “Systemics of Learning for a Revised Pedagogical Agenda.” In Foundations for the Future in Mathematics Education, edited by R. Lesh. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Glass, Robert L. 2006. “Call It Problem Solving, Not Computational Thinking.” Communications of the ACM 49(9):13.

Goldman, Shelley, Roy Pea, Heidy Maldonado, Lee Martin, Toby White, and WILD Team of Stanford University. 2004. “Functioning in the Wireless Classroom.” Paper read at 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education (WMTE ’04), March 23-25, 2004, Washington, D.C.

Goldman, Shelley, Roy Pea, Heidy Maldonado, and WILD Team of Stanford University. 2004. “Emerging Social Engineering in the Wireless Classroom.” Paper read at International Conference on Learning Sciences, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Learning Sciences, June 22-26, 2004, Santa Monica, Calif.

Hazzan, Orit, Judith Gal-Ezer, and Lenore Blum. 2008. “A Model for High School Computer Science Education: The Four Key Elements That Make It!” Paper read at SIGCSE 2008, March 12-15, Portland, Oregon.

Kay, Alan. 2005. “Squeak Etoys, Children & Learning.” In Viewpoints Research Institute, VPRI Research Note RN-2005-001. Available at http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2005001_learning. pdf.

Levy, Sharona T., and David Mioduser. 2008. “Does It ‘Want’ or ‘Was It Programmed to’…? Kindergarten Children’s Explanations of an Autonomous Robot’s Adaptive Functioning.” International Journal of Technology and Design Education 18:337-359.

Moursund, Dave. 2006. Computational Thinking and Math Maturity: Improving Math Education in K-8 Schools. Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon Press.

National Research Council. 1999. Being Fluent with Information Technology. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.

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Phillps, Pat. 2007. Presentation: “Computational Thinking: A Problem-Solving Tool for Every Classroom.” Microsoft. Available at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~CompThink/ resources/ct_pat_phillips.pdf.

Resnick, Mitchel, John Maloney, Andrés Monroy Hernández, Natalie Rusk, Evelyn Eastmond, Karen Brennan, Amon Millner, Eric Rosenbaum, Jay Silver, Brian Silverman, and Yasmin Kafai. 2009. “Scratch: Programming for All.” Communications of the ACM 52(11):60-67.

SECANT: Science Education in Computational Thinking, Purdue University, http://secant. cs.purdue.edu/.

Stonedahl, Forrest, Michelle Wilkerson-Jerde, and Uri Wilensky. 2009. “Re-conceiving Introductory Computer Science Curricula Through Agent-Based Modeling.” Proceedings of the EduMAS Workshop at AAMAS 2009. Evanston, Illinois: Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, Northwestern University.

Sysło, Maciej M., and Anna Beata Kwiatkowska. 2008. “The Challenging Face of Informatics Education in Poland.” Paper read at Informatics Education—Supporting Computational Thinking: Third International Conference on Informatics in Secondary Schools— Evolution and Perspectives, July, Torun, Poland.

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Wing, Jeannette M. 2008. “Computational Thinking and Thinking About Computing.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 366:3717-3725.

Wing, Jeannette M. 2008. “Five Deep Questions in Computing.” Communications of the ACM 51(1):58-60.

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