The Italian Ministry of Education is promoting the introduction of coding and computational thinking at compulsory school level. One of the research initiatives being taken in this regard is “Programming to Learn in Italian Primary School”. The project’s aim is to develop a vertical curriculum for the introduction of programming in Italian primary schools as a new expressive language for children. All the schoolchildren involved in the project attend a weekly computer lab class held throughout the school year. They work on individual projects during the first half of the year. Then, in the second half of the year, they work in small groups on a common theme that the teacher selects from those studied in class. In this poster, we report the work of a fifthgrade class (24 students – 7 females and 17 males, aged 10-11) in the 2017-2018 school year. Findings from individual and group Scratch programs produced, self-evaluation questionnaire and semi-structured interviews with the groups are presented.
Martina Benvenuti, A.C. (2019). Programming to learn in Italian primary school [10.1145/3361721.3361732].
Programming to learn in Italian primary school
Martina Benvenuti
Writing – Original Draft Preparation
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2019
Abstract
The Italian Ministry of Education is promoting the introduction of coding and computational thinking at compulsory school level. One of the research initiatives being taken in this regard is “Programming to Learn in Italian Primary School”. The project’s aim is to develop a vertical curriculum for the introduction of programming in Italian primary schools as a new expressive language for children. All the schoolchildren involved in the project attend a weekly computer lab class held throughout the school year. They work on individual projects during the first half of the year. Then, in the second half of the year, they work in small groups on a common theme that the teacher selects from those studied in class. In this poster, we report the work of a fifthgrade class (24 students – 7 females and 17 males, aged 10-11) in the 2017-2018 school year. Findings from individual and group Scratch programs produced, self-evaluation questionnaire and semi-structured interviews with the groups are presented.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
