SDU
Professor Yasmin Kafai appointed honorary doctor
Yasmin Kafai
Professor of Learning Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded an honorary doctorate at SDU for her work with Learning Computational Thinking.
Read more about Professor Kafai's work with Computational Thinking:
Fields, D., Lui, D., Kafai, Y., Jayathirtha, G., Walker, J., & Shaw, M. (2021). Communicating about computational thinking: Understanding affordances of portfolios for Assessing High School Students’ computational thinking and participation practices. Computer Science Education, 31(2), 224–258. https://doi.org/10.1080/08993408.2020.1866933
Kafai, Y., Proctor, C., & Lui, D. (2020). From theory bias to theory dialogue: embracing cognitive, situated, and critical framings of computational thinking in K-12 CS education. ACM Inroads, 11(1), 44–53. https://doi.org/10.1145/3381887