Course Reform for Developing Computational Thinking Ability of Tip-top Talents

The development of computational thinking ability is an important part of college computer education domestically and overseas. It is a new direction and goal of college computer language teaching reform and construction. Based on computational thinking combined with teaching experience, this paper introduces a new teaching model for college VB programming courses, which adopts modularization and case teaching project.

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Empirical Research on the Cultivation of Primary School Students' Computational Thinking Based on Visual Programming——Take "Codemao" Platform Teaching as an Example

Region - Educational Research and Reviews ◽

10.32629/rerr.v3i3.432 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 35

Author(s):

Hongmei Wang

Keyword(s):

Primary School ◽

Teaching Practice ◽

Rapid Development ◽

Computational Thinking ◽

Visual Programming ◽

Practice Research ◽

Primary School Students ◽

School Students ◽

Thinking Ability ◽

Contemporary Education

With the rapid development of science and technology, cultivating primary school students' computational thinking ability is one of the most important tasks in contemporary education. Visual programming is closely related to computational thinking. Based on expounding their connotations and characteristics, this paper first analyzes the problems existing in the training of primary school students' computational thinking, then further constructs the training mode of primary school students' computational thinking based on visual programming and conducts classroom teaching practice research, finally puts forward suggestions on the training of primary school students' computational thinking based on visual programming, and provides effective practical guidance for training primary school students' computational thinking ability, innovation and problem-solving ability.

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Investigating the Computational Thinking Ability of Young School Students Across Grade Levels in Two Different Types of Romanian Educational Institutions

Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research ◽

10.7821/naer.2021.7.640 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 214

Author(s):

Zoltan Katai ◽

Erika Osztian ◽

Beata Lorincz

Keyword(s):

Search Algorithm ◽

Computational Thinking ◽

Educational Institutions ◽

Education Students ◽

School Students ◽

9Th Grade ◽

Grade Levels ◽

Learning Tasks ◽

Thinking Ability ◽

K 12

Over the last decade, continuous efforts have been made to bring computational thinking (CT) closer to K-12 education. These focused endeavors implicitly suggest that the current curricula do not sufficiently contribute to the development of learners’ CT. On the other hand, since CT is a combined skill with cross-disciplinary implications, one might conclude that even without an explicit focus on CS education, students’ CT might develop latently as they advance with the current curriculum. We have proposed to test whether differences exist in how 3rd-, 5th-, 7th- and 9th-grade learners from two Romanian educational institutions (girls vs. boys from Art vs. Theoretical school; 214 subjects with no prior experience in CT) relate to learning tasks that require a certain level of CT. The testing tool was inspired by the AlgoRythmics dance choreography illustration of the linear search algorithm and has the potential to reveal different levels of abstracting. Findings emphasize the need for a purposeful and coordinated CS infusion into K-9 education in order to accelerate students’ CT development.

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