Overview
Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA)
Computational thinking (CT) is the cornerstone of the modern Information Age: the capacity to frame, analyze, disaggregate and reconfigure problems to best leverage ever-expanding computational capability. Every field and K-16 subject area has different approaches and needs that define their disciplinary knowledge and practices, and thus computational thinking in each discipline is a hybrid creation, connecting general computational methods with specific disciplinary ways of thinking and inquiring in generative ways. This initiative will work to develop the institutional capacity necessary to foster innovative disciplinary computational thinking research and education across the university as well as in K-12 education. The group will participate in a strategic planning process to coordinate and enhance existing university resources and services designed to stimulate new collaborations and allow faculty to consider research questions from new perspectives.
Lead Faculty in bold
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
- Gautam Biswas, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering
- Akos Ledeczi, Professor of Computer Engineering
- Gayathri Narasimham, Research Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCE
- Jonathan Gilligan, Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Ole Molvig, Assistant Professor of History
- Lynn Ramey, Professor of French
PEABODY COLLEGE
- Corey Brady, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, Department of Teaching and Learning
- Noel Enyedy, Professor of Science Education, Department of Teaching and Learning
- Heather Johnson, Associate Professor of the Practice of Science Education, Department of Teaching and Learning
OWEN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
- David Owens, Professor for the Practice of Management and Innovation
STAFF
- Clifford Anderson, Associate University Librarian for Research and Digital Initiatives
- Christopher Vanags, Director of Research Initiatives, Peabody