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Computational thinking for all: an experience report on scaling up teaching computational thinking to all students in a major city in Sweden

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Fredrik Heintz,

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ACM Inroads, Volume 9, Issue 2

Pages 65 - 71

https://doi.org/10.1145/3210553

Published: 27 April 2018 Publication History

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The Swedish government has recently introduced digital competence including programming in the Swedish K-9 curriculum starting no later than fall 2018. This means that 100 000 teachers need to learn programming and digital competence in less than a year. In this paper we report on our experience working with professional teacher training in Sweden's fifth largest city. The city has about 150 000 inhabitants and about 50 schools with about 14 000 students in primary education. The project has been carried out in close cooperation with the municipality.

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ACM Inroads Volume 9, Issue 2

June 2018

75 pages

ISSN:2153-2184

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DOI:10.1145/3211407

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