Creativity development with problem-based digital making and block-based programming for science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics learning in …

X Weng, OL Ng, Z Cui, S Leung - Journal of Educational …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Creativity, one of the cornerstones of students' 21st-century skills, is regarded as an
important learning outcome of science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics …

Computational thinking today

S Grover - Computational thinking in education, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter reflects on where computational thinking (CT) is today–from growing
recognition as an idea and 21st-century skill in the mainstream, to a widely-acknowledged …

Decoding Debugging Instruction: A Systematic Literature Review of Debugging Interventions

S Yang, M Baird, E O'Rourke, K Brennan… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Students learning computer science frequently struggle with debugging errors in their code.
These struggles can have significant downstream effects—negatively influencing how …

Participatory design and participatory debugging: Listening to students to improve computational thinking by creating games

A Theodoropoulos - International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 2022 - Elsevier
Computational Thinking (CT) is considered a fundamental ability for the 21st century, since it
develops problem-solving skills. Debugging is a key aspect of CT and by its very nature …

Using E-textiles to design and develop educational games for preschool-aged children

E Kara, K Cagiltay - Educational Technology & Society, 2023 - JSTOR
This paper reports on the design and development of educational games and materials that
utilize affordable e-textile technology. The researchers employed a design-based approach …

Examining middle school students' attitudes toward computing after participating in a physical computing unit

TS Love - Interactive Learning Environments, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Providing greater access to computer science (CS) education for K-12 students in the United
States (US) has increased interest in integrating CS concepts within authentic science …

Contrasting stances at the crossroads of debugging learning opportunities

D DeLiema, A Hufnagle… - British Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Moments of failure during learning present a wide range of opportunities for
growth. However, experimental research and meta reviews focused on failure and learning …

Structured or unstructured educational robotics curriculum? A study of debugging in block-based programming

C Socratous, A Ioannou - Educational Technology Research and …, 2021 - Springer
The study aims to compare the effect of a structured versus an unstructured educational
robotics (ER) curriculum on (a) the frequency and type of programming errors made by …

Personally meaningful design: Sound making to foster engineering practices with artifacts from home

S Hurtado, T Leinonen, A Keune - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Early engineering experiences can provide young people with experiences that can
contribute to developing longer-term interest in the field and addressing dropout issues …

Making sense of machine learning: Integrating youth's conceptual, creative, and critical understandings of ai

L Morales-Navarro, YB Kafai, F Castro… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Understanding how youth make sense of machine learning and how learning about
machine learning can be supported in and out of school is more relevant than ever before as …