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标题：Elementary Students’ First Approach to Computational Thinking and Programming
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作者：Susanne Kjällander ; Linda Mannila ; Anna Åkerfeldt 等
期刊名称：Education Sciences
电子版ISSN：2227-7102
出版年度：2021
卷号：11
期号：2
页码：80
DOI：10.3390/educsci11020080
出版社：MDPI Publishing
摘要：Digital competence and programming are actively highlighted areas in education worldwide. They are becoming part of curricula all over the world, including the Swedish elementary school curriculum, Children are expected to develop computational thinking through programming activities, mainly in mathematics—which are supposed to be based on both proven experience and scientific grounds. Both are lacking in the lower grades of elementary school. This article gives unique insight into pupils’ learning during the first programming lessons based on a group of Swedish pupils’ experiences when entering school. The goal of the article is to inform education policy and practice. The large interdisciplinary, longitudinal research project studies approximately 1500 students aged 6–16 and their teachers over three years, using video documentation, questionnaires, and focus group interviews. This article reports on empirical data collected during the first year in one class with 30 pupils aged 6–7 years. The social semiotic, multimodal theoretical framework “Design for Learning” is used to investigate potential signs of learning in pupils’ multimodal representations when they, for example, use block programming in the primary and secondary transformation unit. We show that young pupils have positive attitudes to programming and high self-efficacy, and that pupils’ signs of learning in programming are multimodal and often visible in social interactions.
关键词：K-12 education; computational thinking; programming; design; multimodality; learning K-12 education ; computational thinking ; programming ; design ; multimodality ; learning