Computational Thinking in Social Studies

Welcome to episode three of the Infusing Computing webseries.

This episode is a Focus On The Content Area. This is a look at connecting with computational thinking (CT) from a disciplinary perspective.

In this episode, we’ll look at CT in the social studies classroom.

• What do SS & CT look like?
• Standards and content that fits in nicely
• Difference between SS & History?
• Thinking about document based questions (DBQs).
• A DBQ is an algorithm
• Writing a thesis statement is a formula
• The CT elements of PRADA fit well into SS
• Try and identify pattern recognition into unit

Keywords - coding, computational thinking, programming, education, social studies