South Fayette Schools: A Computational Carnival for Kids - Vander Ark on Innovation - Education Week

Combine a makerspace, science fair and a coding bootcamp and you have South Fayette School District, a computational carnival for 3,200 students south of Pittsburgh. With four schools on one suburban campus, South Fayette is the best example of K-12 integrated computational thinking we've seen. Yes, kids are learning to code but more importantly, they are learning to attack complex problems, analyze data, and sprint in teams to public products. Bille Pearce Rondinelli, in her ninth year as Superintendent (left), thinks of computational thinking as the new literacy. Embedded into STEAM studio learning model K-12, computational thinking is the problem...

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