PyConSG Education summit 2025

GenAI tools for CSEd

Tan Chee Wei, Lim Jia Earn MyCodeWeapon

Informatics curriculum in South Korea

Giyeon Bang

6-3-3, similar to the US elementary school

• impact of informatics

middle schol

• AI
  • AI ethics, bias
• digital culture
  • impact on society
  • fake news
  • new careers
• data
  • CODAP

high school

BEBRAS to NOI

Sophie Koh, SIMCC

Nature of tasks similar to BEBRAS

NJIO = CT + Python

• previously known as Dr CT
• online and paper based for inclusivity
• qns include code snippets, students do not need to write Python
  • they need to read and understand Python programs

PCDIT chatbot

All SUTD students learn programming.

Novice programmers don’t have any patterns to fallback on

• start with concrete cases, solve it manually

James Prather: the widening gap when novice programmers using GenAI

Explicit to implicit after lots of practice

Scaffolding the problem solving process

Ashish taught a CT course for those intending to do a CS minor

Ask students to design additional tasks that can be solved with the same pattern

Polya step 4: generalize from the solution of the task into a general pattern

• find sum of 1 to n -> accumulator pattern

Two lectures to cover the problem solving process

Fun and purpose

Lim Jing-Yi, simplelittle.com

micropython line follower

• making the car go faster
• figure of 8

google dinosaur

• open cv to check if person jumps, then trigger the dino to jump

type with your eyes

my suggestion: open cv to control your mouse

submissions where copying is encouraged

give bonus for originality

SUTD intro programming

Soloway, Learning to program = learning to construct mechanisms and explanations

Pi Python LXC

Mr Goh

Using rpi pico + micropython

CT in the age of GenAI

Hon Wai

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/leveraging-computational-thinking-in-the-era-of-generative-ai/