The Development of Internationalized Computational Thinking Curriculum in Hong Kong Primary Education (Abstract Only)

Author(s):  
Gary K.W. Wong ◽  
Kening Zhu ◽  
Xiaojuan Ma ◽  
John Huen
Author(s):  
Ana María Pinto-Llorente

The research was carried out at the School Santísima Trinidad in the framework of robotics education and social science. The aims of the study were to determine participants' perceptions about the effectiveness of the experience to meet the learning objective, to construct and programme robotics models, and to help pupils to become familiar with computational concepts and practices. Based on these goals, it employed a case study method in which were involved a teacher and 52 students of the fourth grade of primary education. The instruments used to collect data were a questionnaire, a semantic differential, a semi-structured interview, and a monitoring guide. The findings suggested participants' positive perspective towards the project to achieve the objectives and contents of the unit; acquire the skills of critical thinking, creative thinking, problem solving; apply their knowledge to real-world problems; and become familiar with some mechanical movements and with a set of computational concepts.


2022 ◽  
pp. 253-269
Author(s):  
Hüseyin Özçınar

The idea that computational thinking or algorithmic thinking should be taught to everyone dates back to the 1960s. First in 1960s, Alan Perlis argued that computer programming should be taught to everyone because it can be used as a mental tool for understanding and solving every kind of problem. In 1980s, under the leadership of Seymour Papert, students at the level of primary education were attempted to be taught LOGO programming language with the aim of gaining procedural thinking skill. After the publication of Jeannette Wing's “computational thinking” in Communications of the ACM in 2006, the idea that the basic concepts of computer science should be learned by all was started to be debated widely again. In the present paper, the justifications for teaching computational thinking and applicability of teaching computational thinking within the context of existing conditions will be discussed.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Collado-Sánchez ◽  
Francisco José García-Peñalvo ◽  
Ana María Pinto-Llorente

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hévellyn Rabêlo ◽  
Wênnio De Oliveira ◽  
Luan Santos ◽  
Ana Liz De Araújo ◽  
Flávia Souza

Integrate computation at primary education is a current challenge. This work is an initiative that provides planning, implementation and evaluation of a course that integrate computational thinking by programming in Art and Culture and Tupi Language disciplines at Indian schools. Scratch was used to produce animations in the contents of indigenous culture. The animations were evaluated by a framework to measure the computational thinking with Scratch code.


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