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

Siu Cheung Kong, Hal Abelson, Josh Sheldon, Andrew Lao, Mike Tissenbaum, Ming Lai, Karen Lang, Natalie Lao

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of International Conference on Computational Thinking Education, CTE 2017
EditorsSiu-cheung KONG, Josh SHELDON, Robert Kwok-yiu LI
PublisherThe Education University of Hong Kong
Pages84-89
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9789887703440
StatePublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event1st International Conference on Computational Thinking Education, CTE 2017 - Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Duration: Jul 13 2017Jul 15 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings of International Conference on Computational Thinking Education
ISSN (Electronic)2664-5661

Conference

Conference1st International Conference on Computational Thinking Education, CTE 2017
Country/TerritoryHong Kong
CityHong Kong
Period7/13/177/15/17

Keywords

  • Computational thinking
  • Curriculum activities
  • K-12 education
  • Programming education

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Education
  • Computer Science Applications

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