Articles and Papers

1. Twenty Things to do with a Computer - A 1971 paper by Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon that is still relevant today

2. Blocks Programming - the rationale behind blocks-based visual programming languages including Scratch

3. Reviving Papert's Dream by Mitchel Resnick - Connecting Scratch with the long history of Logo reserach and development at MIT

4. Logo: A Language for All Ages - A brief, but broad overview of Logo

5. Reflections on Hour of Code - Comparing two very different approaches to teaching coding, both found on the Hour of Code website

6. Computational Thinking - The 2006 article by Jeannette M. Wing that sparked an ongoing discussion in the computer science education community

7. Computational Thinking: What and Why? - a follow up by Jeannette M. Wing in 2010

8. Construction Kits for Kids- design criteria for kids' programming environments

9. Constructionism - An explanation of what the term means from a member of the Epistemology and Learning Group at the MIT Media Lab

10. CT Definition - a brief working definition of computational thinking from the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)

11. American Schools Are Teaching Our Kids How to Code All Wrong - a critique of how it's being done

12. Generative Art for All - The artist creates a program, which generates a work of art; with examples using Scratch and TurtleArt

13. Give P's a Chance: Projects, Peers, Passion, Play by Mitchel Resnick

14. The Hole in the Wall Project and the Power of Self-Organized Learning by Sugata Mitra

15. Turtle Geometry For Primary and Elementary Classrooms

16. Give P's a Chance: Projects, Peers, Passion, Play by Mitchel Resnick

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