Designing and comparing two scratch-based teaching approaches for students aged 10-12 years

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 178-182

  Van Es, Nienke ^a   Jeuring, Johan ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

4C ID; Comparing teaching approaches; Constructionism; Primary school; Teaching Scratch programming

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

4C/ID; COMPUTATIONAL THINKINGS; CONSTRUCTIONISM; LEARNING GAIN; PRIMARY EDUCATION; PRIMARY SCHOOLS; TEACHING APPROACHES; TEACHING PROGRAMMING;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 85040686191     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/3141880.3141883     Document Type: Conference Paper

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