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Filling an Educational Void with Spatial Thinking in the Online Age of Pandemics

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COVID-19 has created challenges and opportunities for K-12 education. Advances in technology and changes to the delivery mode of educational content has provided opportunities to better integrate spatial thinking into curriculums. Such integration is of enormous value due to the centrality of spatial thinking within the STEM disciplines.

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Filling an Educational Void with Spatial Thinking in the Online Age of Pandemics
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SIGITE '20: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education

October 2020

446 pages

ISBN:9781450370455

DOI:10.1145/3368308

General Chairs:
Deepak Khazanchi
University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
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Tenace Kwaku Setor
University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA

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