Eastern Kentucky educators and organizations have focused attention on CS and CT education for K-16 students as part of regional revitalization¶
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q1 i? Following the coal industry's departure, Eastern KY educators and organizations directed attention to CS and CT education for K-16 students, partly through the NSF-funded Tough As Nails partnership. → Iwatani 2021
Evidence¶
Iwatani 2021¶
Iwatani, E., Tackett, T., Tackett, K., Arnett, N., & May, P. (2021). Leveraging Community Cultural Wealth to Support K-8 CT Education in Kentucky Appalachia. IEEE. https://digitalpromise.dspacedirect.org/items/327e7ce2-ba5e-4ea9-8847-aeda3b061c25 doi:10.1109/respect51740.2021.9620610
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Descriptive context statement (type d/e) from the article's summary section reporting the regional investment in CS/CT education; no outcome data, comparison, or evaluation is printed.
"Eastern KY educators and organizations have focu sed attention towards computer science (CS) and computa tional thinking (CT) education for K-16 students, partly t hrough a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded research-p ractice partnership"
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Related Claims¶
- Aspirational capital and kinship sustained the Tough As Nails CT initiative through the COVID-19 pandemic — related
- Appalachia's problem-solving heritage may be getting lost or forgotten as the coal industry collapses — related
- In Eastern Kentucky, supporting workforce development is a leading motivator for teaching CT/CS — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Appalachian culture carries aspirational, resistance, and familial capital that connect to problem-solving and CT — related
- Teachers in the Eastern KY project reported in a 2022 survey that they no longer perceive barriers to integrating computational thinking into their classrooms — related
- A research-practice partnership is creating a K-8 computational thinking pathway in two rural Kentucky districts by applying South Fayette School District's model and training 75+ teachers over three years — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Connecting CT education to real community opportunities is powerful for teachers and students — related
- The partnership's research plan studies pathway creation, grade-band competencies, and whether a competency-based PD framework assists instructors in demonstrating teaching proficiency — related
- Introducing CT as a problem-solving approach that often involves digital technology helped teachers — related
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Eastern Kentucky educators and organizations have focused attention on CS and CT education for K-16 students as part of regional revitalization |
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Eastern Kentucky educators and organizations have focused attention on CS and CT education for K-16 students as part of regional revitalization |
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2021 |
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2024 |
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by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-09 |
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1 — iwatani-2021 |
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