TY - GEN
T1 - Teaching Computational Reasoning without a Computer
AU - Dias, Rafael
AU - Costa, Anikó
AU - Malaquias, José
AU - Câmara, Manuel
N1 - info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5876/147324/PT#
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PY - 2019/10
Y1 - 2019/10
N2 - With the growing need for STEM workers in the job market, schools tend to look for extra-curricular activities that promote this type of skills. With activities like The Inventors or Happy Code, schools encourage kids to have a mindset more open towards technology. Despite these efforts, the tools available to teach programming to primary school students are still lacking. Available solutions can be too difficult to understand, overly expensive for school budgets or may require IT infrastructure that is lacking from the majority of public schools. As a result, this paper aims to create a concept that can convey the fundamentals of programming/Logical Thinking in an accessible and fun way, without using a computer. For this purpose we use a micro-controller, Micro: Bit, and a physical, puzzle-like representation of a programming framework, called MakeCode.
AB - With the growing need for STEM workers in the job market, schools tend to look for extra-curricular activities that promote this type of skills. With activities like The Inventors or Happy Code, schools encourage kids to have a mindset more open towards technology. Despite these efforts, the tools available to teach programming to primary school students are still lacking. Available solutions can be too difficult to understand, overly expensive for school budgets or may require IT infrastructure that is lacking from the majority of public schools. As a result, this paper aims to create a concept that can convey the fundamentals of programming/Logical Thinking in an accessible and fun way, without using a computer. For this purpose we use a micro-controller, Micro: Bit, and a physical, puzzle-like representation of a programming framework, called MakeCode.
KW - extra-curricular activities
KW - Logical Thinking
KW - Micro-controller
KW - Programming fundamentals
KW - Puzzle Representation
KW - technology mindset
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85083963993&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IECON.2019.8927169
DO - 10.1109/IECON.2019.8927169
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85083963993
T3 - IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)
SP - 6795
EP - 6800
BT - Proceedings: IECON 2019 - 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2019
Y2 - 14 October 2019 through 17 October 2019
ER -