Matthew Berland|Victor R. Lee
Collaborative Strategic Board Games as a Site for Distributed Computational Thinking
The University of Texas at San Antonio|Utah State University
paper examines idea contemporary strategic board games represent informal interactional context complex computational thinking takes place games collaborative game requires players work joint pursuit shared goal computational thinking easily observed distributed across several participants raises possibility focus board games profitable wish understand computational thinking learning situ paper introduces coding scheme applies recorded discourse three groups game players provides qualitative examples computational thinking observed documented pandemic primary contributions work description evidence complex computational thinking develop spontaneously board game play