Learning and Teaching Computational Thinking: A Cross-Disciplinary, Collaborative, User-Centered Design Model

The paper shares the results of the process of forming a cross-disciplinary collaborative team and using a user-centered design framework to co-create a self-directed, self-paced, personalized, flexible learning environment as an alternative approach to preparing PK-8 preservice teachers to teach computational thinking. It is part of a larger project that attempts to respond to the need to create a computer science curriculum within a credentialing learning environment.