Towards better tools and methodologies to teach computational thinking to children
Abstract
Computational Thinking is a useful skill to solve problems in all areas of knowledge. Efforts around the world aim to teach children this skill and in some countries it is already part of the curriculum. In this paper, we (i) describe our experiments teaching computational thinking concepts to children, (ii) describe the insights derived from this work, and (iii) propose a set of new hypothesis that should be tested in order to guide the development of a methodology to teach computational thinking to children.
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Papert, Seymour. (1972) Teaching Children Thinking, Programmed Learning and Educational Technology, 9(5), 245-255.
Papert, Seymour. (1980) Mindstorms: Children, computers, and powerful ideas. Basic Books, Inc.
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Silva Junior, S. M. da, & França, S. V. A. (2017) Programação para todos: Análise Comparativa de Ferramentas Utilizadas no Ensino de Programação. XXV Workshop sobre Educação em Computação, Anais do XXXVII CSBC (p. 2199).
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Wing, J. M. (2006). Computational thinking. Communications of the ACM, 49(3), 33-35.
Wing, J. M. (2008). Computational thinking and thinking about computing. Philosophical transactions of the royal society of London A: mathematical, physical and engineering sciences, 366(1881), 3717-3725.
Published
2018-07-26
How to Cite
MINCHILLO, Laís V.; VELLOZO, Augusto; BORIN, Edson; BORIN, Juliana F..
Towards better tools and methodologies to teach computational thinking to children. In: WORKSHOP ON COMPUTING EDUCATION (WEI), 26. , 2018, Natal.
Anais [...].
Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2018
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p. 359-374.
ISSN 2595-6175.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wei.2018.3515.
