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Can a Learning Companion Be Used to Continue Teaching Programming to Children Even During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
Learning how to program in Primary Education has attracted significant research in recent years. It is unclear though how programming environments and languages should be adapted to children to achieve better learning and use, but one trend seems to be the use of Scratch. The question in this paper...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8545312/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34812353 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3020007 |
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description | Learning how to program in Primary Education has attracted significant research in recent years. It is unclear though how programming environments and languages should be adapted to children to achieve better learning and use, but one trend seems to be the use of Scratch. The question in this paper is what programming environment can be used to continue teaching programming to children who have already been taught Scratch for years. This paper’s proposal is that students aged between 10 and 12 can benefit from interacting with a friendly learning companion using p-code such as Alcody. The hypothesis is that students (aged between 10 and 12) with a knowledge of Scratch will be able to significantly improve their scores by using a learning companion to teach them how to program even during the COVID-19 pandemic. To check the hypothesis, an experiment was carried out during the 2019/2020 academic year with 137 students in Ecuador. A significant improvement in the scores of the students was recorded together with high satisfaction. |
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spelling | pubmed-85453122021-11-18 Can a Learning Companion Be Used to Continue Teaching Programming to Children Even During the COVID-19 Pandemic? IEEE Access Education Learning how to program in Primary Education has attracted significant research in recent years. It is unclear though how programming environments and languages should be adapted to children to achieve better learning and use, but one trend seems to be the use of Scratch. The question in this paper is what programming environment can be used to continue teaching programming to children who have already been taught Scratch for years. This paper’s proposal is that students aged between 10 and 12 can benefit from interacting with a friendly learning companion using p-code such as Alcody. The hypothesis is that students (aged between 10 and 12) with a knowledge of Scratch will be able to significantly improve their scores by using a learning companion to teach them how to program even during the COVID-19 pandemic. To check the hypothesis, an experiment was carried out during the 2019/2020 academic year with 137 students in Ecuador. A significant improvement in the scores of the students was recorded together with high satisfaction. IEEE 2020-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8545312/ /pubmed/34812353 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3020007 Text en This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. For more information, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. For more information, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Education Can a Learning Companion Be Used to Continue Teaching Programming to Children Even During the COVID-19 Pandemic? |
title | Can a Learning Companion Be Used to Continue Teaching Programming to Children Even During the COVID-19 Pandemic? |
title_full | Can a Learning Companion Be Used to Continue Teaching Programming to Children Even During the COVID-19 Pandemic? |
title_fullStr | Can a Learning Companion Be Used to Continue Teaching Programming to Children Even During the COVID-19 Pandemic? |
title_full_unstemmed | Can a Learning Companion Be Used to Continue Teaching Programming to Children Even During the COVID-19 Pandemic? |
title_short | Can a Learning Companion Be Used to Continue Teaching Programming to Children Even During the COVID-19 Pandemic? |
title_sort | can a learning companion be used to continue teaching programming to children even during the covid-19 pandemic? |
topic | Education |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8545312/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34812353 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3020007 |
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