Exploring the Potential of Computational Thinking: Contexts and Career Opportunities Part 1

Presented by Sara Delano Moore, Ph.D., Director of Professional Learning, ORIGO Education

Sponsored by ORIGO Education

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Computational-thinking skills include seeing patterns, creating rules or algorithms, making abstractions, and decomposing a mathematical structure into component parts. These skills are closely tied to many applications of mathematics as well as to the Standards for Mathematical Practice. Whether during in-person instruction or remote learning, teachers and students must continue to develop the mathematical practices; computational thinking provides an engaging context for this work. Students will explore engaging mathematical problems, develop the practices, and build foundation skills for careers which require computational thinking.

In this first edWebinar of a two-part series, Dr. Sara Delano Moore, Director of Professional Learning at ORIGO Education, shares mathematical tasks which develop computational thinking. The session explores contexts in which computational thinking is likely to occur and highlight career pathways where students might use these skills. The session considers both face-to-face and virtual settings for instruction. Watch Sara to explore the opportunities of computational thinking.

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Exploring the Potential of Computational Thinking: Contexts and Career Opportunities Part 2

About the Presenter

Sara Delano Moore, Ph.D. serves as Director of Professional Learning and Chair of the Mathematics Advisory Board at ORIGO Education. A fourth-generation educator, Sara’s work emphasizes the power of deep understanding and multiple representations for learning mathematics. Her interests include building mathematical comprehension and operation sense, incorporating high-quality literature into mathematics instruction, and connecting mathematics with engineering design and computational thinking. Sara has served as a classroom teacher of mathematics and science, a mathematics teacher educator at the University of Kentucky, Director of the Kentucky Center for Middle School Academic Achievement, and Director of Mathematics & Science at ETA Hand2Mind. She has authored numerous articles in professional journals and is a co-author of the Mathematize It! series of books. She is also a member of the Visible Learning for Mathematics writing team, including two volumes of the Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Learning Classroom series.

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