Developing a community definition and teaching modules for computational thinking

Ater-Kranov, Ashley; Orr, Genevieve; Wallace, Scott A.; Zhang, Mo

doi:10.1145/1867651.1867689

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“…He believes CT is about seven different views or categories, namely coordination, communication, computing, recollection, design and assessment, and automation. Ater-Kranov et al (2010), by evaluating prospective students and academics, studied the importance of various computation thinking skills and concluded that the application of abstractions to solve a problem, along with algorithmic thinking are the key competencies of CT. Unlike Wing's (2006) argument, Ater-Kranov et al (2010 found that since complex CT can also occur spontaneously, engineering and mathematical thinking are not essential parts of CT.…”

Section: Computational Thinkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Gaming to Computational Thinking: An Adaptive Educational Computer Game-Based Learning Approach

Hooshyar

Pedaste

Yang

et al. 2020

Journal of Educational Computing Research

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Educational games have been increasingly used to improve students’ computational thinking. However, most existing games have focused on the theoretical knowledge of computational thinking, ignoring the development of computational thinking skills. Moreover, there is a lack of integration of adaptivity into educational computer games for computational thinking, which is crucial to addressing individual needs in developing computational thinking skills. In this study, we present an adaptive educational computer game, called AutoThinking, for developing students’ computational thinking skills in addition to their conceptual knowledge. To evaluate the effects of the game, we conducted an experimental study with 79 elementary school students in Estonia, where the experimental group learned with AutoThinking, while the control group used a traditional technology-enhanced learning approach. Our findings show that learning with the adaptive educational computer game significantly improved students’ computational thinking related to both conceptual knowledge and skills. Moreover, students using the adaptive educational computer game showed a significantly higher level of interest, satisfaction, flow state, and technology acceptance in learning computational thinking. Implications of the findings are also discussed.

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Section: Computational Thinkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Gaming to Computational Thinking: An Adaptive Educational Computer Game-Based Learning Approach

Hooshyar

Pedaste

Yang

et al. 2020

Journal of Educational Computing Research

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“…Ater-Kranov et al [189] present the development of learning modules, initial findings and challenges of the NW-DCSD (Northwest Distributed Computer Science Department) project which aims to offer an "innovative and inclusive vision of computing in the 21st century". They give a definition of CT and then give some examples of CS and Non-CS modules which they hope to promote CT.…”

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Computational Thinking in Secondary Education: Where does it fit? A systematic literary review

Lockwood

Mooney

2018

IJCSES

111

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Computational Thinking (CT) has been described as an essential skill which everyone should learn and can therefore include in their skill set. Seymour Papert [1] is credited as concretising Computational Thinking in 1980 but since Wing [2] popularised the term in 2006 and brought it to the international community's attention, more and more research has been conducted on CT in education. The aim of this systematic literary review is to give educators and education researchers an overview of what work has been carried out in the domain, as well as potential gaps and opportunities that still exist.

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“…Finally, there is no universally agreed way of teaching CT skills in higher education to students as this is an abstract concept and how to teach CT is an active research area [12], [84], [85]. As there is no standard or a traditional way of teaching CT in higher education, how to teach CT skills to students in the most convenient way is an experimental area.…”

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Enhancing Confidence in Using Computational Thinking Skills via Playing a Serious Game: A Case Study to Increase Motivation in Learning Computer Programming

Kazimoglu

2020

IEEE Access

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Developing a community definition and teaching modules for computational thinking

Cited by 31 publications

References 5 publications

From Gaming to Computational Thinking: An Adaptive Educational Computer Game-Based Learning Approach

From Gaming to Computational Thinking: An Adaptive Educational Computer Game-Based Learning Approach

Computational Thinking in Secondary Education: Where does it fit? A systematic literary review

Enhancing Confidence in Using Computational Thinking Skills via Playing a Serious Game: A Case Study to Increase Motivation in Learning Computer Programming

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