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Computers & Technology

Concurrent

Thinking, Tinkering, Borrowing, and Babbage

Saturday, November 11, 2023
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
Location: Durango 2
Journey back to the time of the world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace, whose imagination produced a flying horse and a program that directs a machine to calculate numbers. This session features hands-on computer coding activities inspired by the biography “Ada’s Ideas.” Participants receive exciting, research-based activities that transform children into computer programmers, investigators, and historians.

Learning Objectives:

  • Participants will gain an understanding of how computer science (coding) activities can be used to develop talent in young, gifted students.
  • Participants will understand how computer science can be used to promote creativity, problem solving, innovation, decision making, communication, and critical thinking.
  • Participants will gain an understanding of how literature, including non-fiction texts, can be used as a platform to plan and implement computer science activities in elementary classrooms.