In this episode I unpack Proctor, Bigman, and Blikstein’s (2019) publication titled “Defining and designing computer science education in a K12 public school district,” which serves as a case study of a district’s processes and tensions developing a plan for implementing computer science across K-12.

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How to Get Started with Computer Science Education

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00:00 Intro

00:24 Abstract

01:35 My single sentence summary

02:25 Paper introduction

04:26 Background

05:26 Results

05:29 What is computer science?

09:56 How should computer science be taught?

17:01 What process should be used to answer these questions?

20:57 Discussion

22:19 Lingering thoughts and questions

22:26 What implementation approaches have worked for you or other districts that you’re aware of?

23:11 Outro