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[kswilkens]

Episode 11: Exploring elementary students’ understanding of CS concepts with Feiya Luo and Wei Yan

The goal of this blog and podcast series is to bring CS education research into the K-8 classroom. In this episode, I take a deep dive into exploring elementary students’ understanding of computer science and computational thinking concepts with Feiya Luo and Wei Yan. Feiya is an Assistant Professor in Instructional Technology at the University of Alabama and Wei is a Ph.D. candidate from the University of Florida, majoring in Educational Technology.

Overall Takeaways:

Exploring Elementary Students’ Debugging Behaviors in Puzzle-based Programming: A Learning Trajectory Approach

Debugging strategies observed for this study include trial and error, step-by-step error elimination, abandoning and restarting, help-seeking, and using system-specific supports (provided by the platform being used).

Elementary Students’ Understanding of Variables in Computational Thinking-Integrated Instruction: A Mixed Methods Study

One challenge with teaching variables is that they are already part of a student’s experience in math and science and “students often have a different conceptual understanding of what variables mean in different content areas” (p. 523).

The learning theory used for the study hypothesizes that students progress through four levels of thinking about variables: data user, data storer, variable user, and variable creator. 

Most elementary students in the study did not progress beyond data storer.

Cognitive interviews found the students had trouble recognizing that a variable holds only one value at a time. 

Having students think aloud and interviewing them are formative assessment tools for determining their misconceptions.

Focus on mechanics of variables in elementary school before engaging in higher-level abstraction.

Takeaways for Researchers

Learn why some students are comfortable using debugging strategies and some are not.

Understand that introducing some CS concepts at the elementary school level like variables is complex, but it is not impossible to teach - it involves breaking down the concept into smaller pieces.

It is important to carefully design integrated instruction that includes teaching the mechanics of complex concepts like variables.

Takeaways for K-8 Teachers/Administrators

Start with a CS concept you are most confident in and comfortable with.

Structure repeated exposure to concepts of variables and other more complex CS concepts to help students build more advanced understanding over time.

Seek out professional development.

Incorporate CS teaching strategies, like debugging, when integrating CS into your curriculum.

Resources:

Feiya Luo

Wei Yan

CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards

Learning Trajectories

LTEC-2 - Everyday Computing

Action Fractions - CS integrated in 3rd and 4th grade math

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— Justin Riley (@20hz20khz) March 9, 2017

via Twitter https://twitter.com/20hz20khz March 08, 2017 at 08:05PM

[kswilkens]

Episode 9: Using art to explore emotion, problem solving and identity in CS with Maggie Dahn

The goal of this blog and podcast series is to bring CS education research into the K-8 classroom. In this episode, I take a deep dive into the paper, Dynamics of emotion, problem solving, and identity: Portraits of three girl coders with Maggie Dahn. She is an Associate Project Scientist at the University of California, Irvine working with the Connected Learning Lab and Creativity Labs. Maggie has a background in visual arts and engages in design research to study how people learn in different contexts and the affordances of art making for the development of voice and identity and issues of access and equity.

Research paper takeaways: Kids are feeling things and art making can be a tool for reflection on emotion and helps put young people in positions of power.

Context: An after school program for middle and high school students focused on creating a debugging culture through art and code.

Results: Creative reflection spaces like journaling, art making, and storytelling can open possibilities for learners to understand and examine the integration between problem solving, emotion and identity.

Takeaways for researchers:

Opening up the way you see how art can contribute to CS. See art as providing a way of thinking, seeing the world, and approaching problems. Art supports creating cultural and social connections and art making can create a sense of shared empathy. 

Takeaways for K-8 teachers and educators:

Look for opportunities to incorporate art, try it out and experiment. Think about how art can be multifaceted and used as a reflective tool to support development in CS. Think about how to support uncertainty and surprise. You don't always need to know the answer of the art making (or technology creating) activity before you start it. Consider how you can facilitate creating a calming environment for your students.

Resources:

Maggie Dahn

Art as a Point of Departure for Understanding Student Experience in Learning to Code (paper)

Debugging Failure: Youth Resilience in Computer Science (video)

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