MIT App Inventor Computational Thinking Curriculum
A curriculum of 50 hours of content, structured around the MIT App Inventor programme.
The curriculum is a refactoring of the Coolthink Middle School Curriculum, a 3 year computational thinking curriculum currently being piloted in Hong Kong. This curriculum is intended to be delivered in a single year, and can be modified to work as a 6 week unit, 12 week unit, or a semester long course. The curriculum is targeted for middle school students but can be used successfully with high school students as well. The curriculum is based on teaching students to think computationally: to decompose problems, abstract and modularize, reuse and remix existing solutions, and to test fully to arrive at a working solution. Students will use MIT App Inventor, a blocks-based programming language with a development environment that runs in a browser, to design and build mobile apps. Students build their digital confidence and become empowered to create, rather than just use technology in their lives.
MIT App Inventor Teachers website: https://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/teach
Free to use for educational purposes, available under Creative Commons