Experiencing Computational Thinking and the Concept of Loops in an Outdoor CS Unplugged Approach

Wetzel, Sina; Milicic, Gregor; Ludwig, Matthias

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“…Sermin Metin presented research on teaching CSU courses in kindergartens in a moderately developed region of Turkey, demonstrating the benefits of the unplugged approach to programming skills (Metin S., 2020). Sina Wetzel offers CSU research in Germany that uses a combination of indoor and outdoor learning methods to expand the space for CS education (Wetzel et al, 2020) . Olmo-Munoz and his colleagues presented research on CSU for children aged 5-7 years old in Spain, which indicated that when children were taught in an unplugged environment before being taught in a plugged one, their performance and attention improved dramatically (Del Javier Olmo-Mu-noz et al, 2020).…”

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Characteristics and problems of unplugged computer science curriculum for young children

Bao

Chen

2022

Int J Innov Educ Res

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With the progress of computer science education in recent years, more and more educators have brought attention to computer science education among young children. Among all these strategies, the unplugged form has been shown to be more effective in teaching. However, recent studies have focused more on the impact of unplugged computer science courses on young children and less on whether these courses are appropriate for the developmental stage of young children. Therefore, this research summarized the curriculum characteristics by comparing different series of unplugged courses for young children from four nations. Then, in a 7-day workshop conducted in China's urban areas, we explored the issues that arise in the implementation of these courses. This research reveals that, although the existing courses cater to a young age range, four issues can still be found, including difficulty, ability difference, too much cooperation, and emphasis on abstraction. Some of these issues may be handled by instructors, while others need consideration of the connection between curriculum design and the physical and cognitive development levels of young children. Furthermore, this research explored the acceptance of unplugged computer science among Chinese young children as well as its impact on their computational thinking level, achieving positive results.

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Characteristics and problems of unplugged computer science curriculum for young children

Bao

Chen

2022

Int J Innov Educ Res

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“…Further examples show that outdoor activities are often introduced for one discipline related to STEM (e.g. Gaio et al, 2020;Gross & Harmer, 2020;Wetzel et al, 2020).…”

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Indoors vs. Outdoors

Jablonski

2023

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Modelling activities serve to integrate real-life objects into STEM classes. This article investigates different settings for modelling with real objects and their representations both inside and outside the classroom. Using the example of mathematics, the settings working outside the classroom at the real object, inside the classroom with photos, and inside the classroom with a 3D model are considered and compared in an explorative study with 29 students. Questionnaire items provide information about the students’ perceptions of the different settings. The results report significant differences in the simplifying and structuring step as well as in the mathematising step when comparing the settings outside and inside with photos. The results are taken up for generating hypotheses concerning the role of the outdoors in interdisciplinary STEM modelling activities.

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Experiencing Computational Thinking and the Concept of Loops in an Outdoor CS Unplugged Approach

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Characteristics and problems of unplugged computer science curriculum for young children

Characteristics and problems of unplugged computer science curriculum for young children

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