Teaching computational thinking to 8-year-olds through ScratchJr

Hylke Faber; Menno Wierdsma

doi:10.1145/3059009.3072986

Teaching computational thinking to 8-year-olds through ScratchJr

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This synopsis presents the preliminary results of a larger study that aims to uncover design principles for teaching computational thinking to primary school children. This research focuses on teaching computational thinking to 8-year-olds through Scratch Jr. By engaging in a cyclic process in which we create lesson materials and use evaluation data to improve them, we formulate design principles and provide teachers with sample course materials.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
Pages	359-360
Number of pages	1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-4704-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3059009.3072986
Publication status	Published - 28 Jun 2017
Event	2017 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education - Bologna, Italy Duration: 3 Jul 2017 → …

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Conference	2017 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Bologna
Period	3/07/17 → …

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computers
programming
primary schools

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