A Study of the Effect of Individuals’ Orientation, Digital Literacy and Communication on Self-Efficacy: Targeting Students in the Computational Thinking Class

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
고윤정
Author(s):  
Yune Tran

The growing demand for digital literacy, computer science (CS), and computational thinking (CT) has taken traction in U.S. schools. The emphasis on teaching these skills in the classroom demands teachers who are prepared to teach such content and skills. However, there has been limited research on preservice teacher self-efficacy for teaching CS to elementary-aged students even though a body of research related to teacher efficacy has supported positive changes in student learning. The purpose of the mixed-method research was to examine over 30 preservice teachers' self-efficacy in teaching CS lessons to elementary-aged students. Findings included improved efficacy, confidence, and positive perceptions about teaching CS from pre-to post-test surveys, focus-group interviews, and written reflections. Three prominent topics emerged from qualitative data and consisted of: (1) lack of familiarity of concepts caused nervousness; (2) peer and content support to ease implementation; (3) developing enthusiasm of the content through multiple exposures.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1720 ◽  
pp. 012009
Author(s):  
Irma Yuliana ◽  
Hardika Dwi Hermawan ◽  
Harun Joko Prayitno ◽  
Koesomo Ratih ◽  
Muhammad Syahriandi Adhantoro ◽  
...  

The evolving digitization of teaching and learning in higher education institutions requires students to be digitally literate (Miller 2015). Despite the echoes of being “digital natives” (Prensky 2001), many EFL students experience difficulties when locating, retrieving, evaluating, and synthesizing digital information at their disposal, especially when the information is in English. To this end, this study is conducted to scrutinize the relationship between EFL students’ second language (L2) digital literacy skills and strategies (DLSs) self-efficacy and their English proficiency level. A total of 93 Saudi students majoring in English at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University were surveyed for their English proficiency level and their abilities to use three major domains of digital literacy skills. The data were analyzed statistically using descriptive measures and ANOVA. The results revealed a significant positive correlation between English proficiency and L2 DLSs. Students with intermediate and upper-intermediate English levels displayed low efficacy in their abilities to navigate, evaluate, and synthesize online information compared to advanced English users. The study concluded that students with higher English proficiency are more responsive to digital literacy skills and can perform well in digitally enhanced environments than basic English users. Pedagogical implications and areas for future research are discussed.


Author(s):  
Enrique Arturo Vázquez Uscanga ◽  
Johanna Bottamedi ◽  
María Luz Brizuela

En la actualidad, diferentes países del mundo han dirigido sus esfuerzos a elevar los estándares de calidad de sus sistemas educativos nacionales. Entre las prioridades aparece como una de la más relevantes las relacionadas con la alfabetización digital, entendida como las competencias que todo ciudadano y ciudadana debe desarrollar para considerarse alfabetizado en el siglo XXI. Dichas competencias refieren a la capacidad de utilizar las fuentes digitales de forma eficaz. Se trata de un tipo especial de mentalidad o pensamiento (Zapata-Ros, 2015). Con ello intentamos explicitar la concepción y el enfoque que sostenemos respecto de este tipo de alfabetización propia de las sociedades contemporáneas, es decir, informatizada o conocidas como sociedades del conocimiento y la información: un tipo de alfabetización que enfatiza aspectos cognitivos del trabajo en entornos digitales en comparación a otras definiciones que la conceptualizan focalizando en las habilidades técnicas involucradas en la utilización de dispositivos digitales. En este sentido, el presente artículo considera que la ausencia previa del desarrollo de tales competencias dificulta practicar otras habilidades propias del pensamiento computacional (en adelante PC) que implican la resolución de problemas mediante la utilización de ordenadores computacionales o en ausencia de estos. De lo anterior la preocupación y el objeto de reflexión de este trabajo se direcciona hacia conocer si los países latinoamericanos seleccionados, a saber, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile y México, han incorporado en el marco de sus políticas públicas de enseñanza las competencias y habilidades propias del PC y cuáles han sido las estrategias implementadas para concretarlo. Por último, el texto cuestiona la concepción acerca del PC que se deduce de las políticas y estrategias implementadas proveyendo una conclusión que destaca los enfoques respecto de cómo se conciben el aprendizaje de las competencias involucradas. Nowadays, different countries of the world have focused their efforts on raising the quality standards of their national educational systems. Among the priorities appears as one of the most relevant those related to digital literacy, understood as the skills that every citizen must develop to be considered literate in the 21st century. These competencies refer to the ability to use digital sources effectively. It is a special type of mentality or thought (Zapata-Ros, 2015). With this we try to explain the conception and the approach that we have regarding this type of literacy typical of contemporary societies, that is, computerized or known as societies of knowledge and information: a type of literacy that emphasizes cognitive aspects of work in digital environments compared to other definitions that conceptualize it focusing on the technical skills involved in the use of digital devices. In this sense, the present monograph considers that the previous absence of the development of such competencies makes it difficult to practice other abilities of computational thinking (PC) that involve the resolution of problems through the use of computer computers or in their absence. From the above, the concern and the object of reflection of this work is directed towards knowing if the selected Latin American countries, namely Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Mexico, have incorporated their own skills and abilities within their public education policies of the PC and what have been the strategies implemented to specify it. Finally, the text questions the conception about the PC that is deduced from the policies and strategies implemented, providing a conclusion that highlights the approaches to how the learning of the competences involved is conceived.


Author(s):  
María del Mar Sánchez Vera

Recently, computational thinking has experienced a resurgence, due to the scientific and educational community has placed its focus of interest on it. However, there is a lack of consensus about what it is and how to work it. That has caused that the approach to computational thinking is addressed in different directions in educational fields. From technical approaches, the potential to be integrated in teachers´teaching strategy could be not considered; from transversal approaches, the possibilities in the field of didactics are included, but they incorporate different visions that makes it application difficult. In addition, new perspectives are incorporated, such as ”unplugged” computational thinking. Given this panorama, it is evident the need to address from the pedagogy, and specifically from the Educational Technology field, the topic of computational thinking, starting from the possibilities it has related to digital literacy and as a means to express ideas with technology; to the possibilities to be included in educational contexts around the use of learn with robotics.


2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo De Oliveira Dias ◽  
Leonor Santos

Background: The general guidelines of the prescribed Mathematics curricula in force in Brazil and Portugal emphasise the use of digital technologies for Mathematics Education to meet the demands of the globalised world. Objectives: To analyse perspectives expressed in the documents and speeches that circulated in the reform processes of the curricular guidelines. Design: Comparative research for the analysis of recent reforms concerning the recommendations on the use of technologies. Setting and participants: Literature review and documentary analysis of the curriculum guidelines in Brazil for the final years of elementary school in Brazil and for the last year of the 2nd cycle and the entire 3rd cycle in Portugal. Data collection and analysis: Qualitative documentary analysis, the categories of analysis emerged from the literature review and trends that are under discussion and will compose the reference framework of the Mathematics Project 2030. Results: In the Digital Literacy category, we observed an emphasis on digital applications aiming at changing the framework, representation and unclear communication of the real objectives; and in the Computational Thinking category, we observed a focus on building algorithms in a limited and very specific way and using language, aiming at the development of mathematical logical thinking in structuring digital applications, in formulating and solving problems. Conclusions: The study raised the need to discuss issues related to the clear definition of objectives, the emphasis on the adoption of software primarily for illustration, limits on the connection between computational thinking and algebraic language, and the focus on rigour in the development of skills for control and management.


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