Teaching Computational Thinking to Primary School Students via Unplugged Programming Lessons
This paper focuses on an introductory course in computational thinking for students at their final year in primary school, carried out at the start of the academic year 2015/2016. The course consisted of six 90 minutes’ lessons that were taught once a week over the course of six weeks in 26 schools...
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doaj-0cf720e76456499482054ceb591f73832020-12-03T21:12:14ZengEuropean Teacher Education NetworkJETEN2183-22342017-12-011220171324Teaching Computational Thinking to Primary School Students via Unplugged Programming LessonsHylke H. Faber0Menno D. M. Wierdsma1Richard P. Doornbos2Kevin de Vette23Jan S. van der Ven24Hanze University of Applied Sciences;Hanze University of Applied Sciences;Hanze University of Applied Sciences;Groningen Programmeert Groningen, NetherlandsGroningen Programmeert Groningen, NetherlandsThis paper focuses on an introductory course in computational thinking for students at their final year in primary school, carried out at the start of the academic year 2015/2016. The course consisted of six 90 minutes’ lessons that were taught once a week over the course of six weeks in 26 schools in the north of the Netherlands. The lessons were designed for students to study programming concepts without requiring computers or tablets. This paper describes the design and evaluation process for these ‘unplugged’ lessons in computational thinking. This paper ends with design principles for the design of lessons in computational thinking, and discusses possible directions for future research.https://etenjournal.com/2020/02/07/teaching-computational-thinking-to-primary-school-students-via-unplugged-programming-lessons/computational thinkingprogrammingunpluggedk-12primary |
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Hylke H. Faber Menno D. M. Wierdsma Richard P. Doornbos Kevin de Vette2 Jan S. van der Ven2 Teaching Computational Thinking to Primary School Students via Unplugged Programming Lessons JETEN computational thinking programming unplugged k-12 primary |
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Hylke H. Faber Menno D. M. Wierdsma Richard P. Doornbos Kevin de Vette2 Jan S. van der Ven2 |
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Teaching Computational Thinking to Primary School Students via Unplugged Programming Lessons |
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Teaching Computational Thinking to Primary School Students via Unplugged Programming Lessons |
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Teaching Computational Thinking to Primary School Students via Unplugged Programming Lessons |
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Teaching Computational Thinking to Primary School Students via Unplugged Programming Lessons |
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Teaching Computational Thinking to Primary School Students via Unplugged Programming Lessons |
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teaching computational thinking to primary school students via unplugged programming lessons |
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European Teacher Education Network |
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2183-2234 |
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2017-12-01 |
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This paper focuses on an introductory course in computational thinking for students at their final year in primary school, carried out at the start of the academic year 2015/2016. The course consisted of six 90 minutes’ lessons that were taught once a week over the course of six weeks in 26 schools in the north of the Netherlands. The lessons were designed for students to study programming concepts without requiring computers or tablets. This paper describes the design and evaluation process for these ‘unplugged’ lessons in computational thinking. This paper ends with design principles for the design of lessons in computational thinking, and discusses possible directions for future research. |
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computational thinking programming unplugged k-12 primary |
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