Coding in the Classroom: Computational Participation

Lisa Anne Floyd has been teaching people to code, and how to teach with code, for most of a decade. Currently a doctoral candidate at Western University, she is a teacher, coordinator, developer, author, researcher, and has worked at TVOntario, Inksmith, and other places with an interest in math, science, and/or coding. After interviewing Jeff Irvine, Brodie and Sezer had even more questions about what coding actually is, even as he helped them understand that it is more than just a tool to do mathematics. They hoped to get Lisa's views on the subject, based on her diverse experience in the field as an educator and researcher. What they learned is an exciting view of computational thinking that is a direct descendant of the ideas and values of Seymour Papert and all the others who followed him and made contributions to this new idea in mathematics classrooms.