@inproceedings{c59fdb3256014830a7ac6b5197d3cde3,
title = "Curriculum activities to foster primary school students{\textquoteright} computational practices in block-based programming environments",
abstract = "As digital technology is increasingly a part of all sectors of society, educational approaches must be developed in order to nurture students{\textquoteright} 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.",
keywords = "Computational thinking, Curriculum activities, K-12 education, Programming education",
author = "Kong, {Siu Cheung} and Hal Abelson and Josh Sheldon and Andrew Lao and Mike Tissenbaum and Ming Lai and Karen Lang and Natalie Lao",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017, The Education University of Hong Kong. All rights reserved.; 1st International Conference on Computational Thinking Education, CTE 2017 ; Conference date: 13-07-2017 Through 15-07-2017",
year = "2017",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9789887703440",
series = "Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Thinking Education",
publisher = "The Education University of Hong Kong",
pages = "84--89",
editor = "Siu-cheung KONG and Josh SHELDON and LI, {Robert Kwok-yiu}",
booktitle = "Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Thinking Education, CTE 2017",
}