Curriculum activities to foster primary school students' computational practices in block-based programming environments

Curriculum activities to foster primary school students' computational practices in block-based programming environments

Conference proceedings of International Conference on Computational Thinking Education 2017

• Kong, Siu Cheung The Education University of Hong Kong
• Abelson, Hal Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Sheldon, Josh Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Lao, Chan Chio Andrew The Education University of Hong Kong
• Tissenbaum, Mike Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Lai, Ming The Education University of Hong Kong
• Lang, Karen Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Lao, Natalie Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Kong, Siu Cheung The Education University of Hong Kong
• Sheldon, Josh Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Li, Robert Kwok Yiu City University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong

The Education University of Hong Kong

2017

• F Learning & Teaching
  • FD Application of Communicative Media, IT in Learning & Teaching
• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GD Science & Technology
• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QC Primary Education

Computational Thinking Programming Education Curriculum Activities K-12 Education

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Primary Education

As digital technology is increasingly a part of all sectors of society, educational approaches must be developed in order to nurture students’ ability to see the world through a computational lens. One way to achieve this goal is to promote Computational Thinking (CT) for young learners. The CoolThink@JC project is a four-year curriculum pilot designed to integrate CT into Hong Kong upper-primary level schools. The CoolThink framework for curriculum development is structured around computational concepts, practices and perspectives adapted from the framework of Brennan and Resnick (2012). This adapted framework motivated the choice of learning activities for CoolThink. This paper focuses on one aspect of that framework, namely computational practices. Here, we describe how activities in the CoolThink curriculum can promote the computational practices highlighted by the framework.
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• English

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• 9789887703440

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2017-09-08