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International Technology and Engineering Educators Association 2026 ITEEA Conference; Virginia Beach, VA

Event Date
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Sponsoring Organization
International Technology and Engineering Educators Association (ITEEA)

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Discipline/Topic
Engineering
Technology
Event Type
Conference

Early Childhood Teachers’ Use of Asset-based Computational Thinking Pedagogy: Centering Students’ Expertise and Life Experiences

Computer Science
Technology
Classroom Practice
Pedagogy
Elementary

Computational thinking (CT) is central to computer science, yet there is a gap in the literature on how CT emerges and develops in early childhood especially for children from historically marginalized communities. Yet, lack of access to computational materials and effective instruction can create inequities that have lasting effects on young children (Chaudry, et al., 2017). To alleviate the pervasiveness of such inequities and remedy the “pedagogical dominance of Whiteness” (Baines et al., 2018, p.

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https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wp.txstate.edu/dist/5/2993/files/2024/07/Assaf-Ju…
Author/Presenter

Lori Czop Assaf

Sean Justice

Lead Organization(s)
Texas State University
Year
2024
Short Description

Computational thinking (CT) is central to computer science, yet there is a gap in the literature on how CT emerges and develops in early childhood especially for children from historically marginalized communities. Understanding how teachers provide asset-based, culturally responsive opportunities for CT in early childhood classrooms remains largely unknown. The purpose of this paper is to share a subset of findings from a qualitative, ethnographic study that explored the ways in which early childhood teachers (ECT) learned and implemented CT using asset-based pedagogies.

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