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Explorations on the Nature of Children's Conceptual Change in Computational Thinking

Authors: Milla Kruskopf, Kirsti Lonka, Mirjamaija Mikkilä-Erdmann

Editors: L. Gómez Chova, A. López Martínez, I. Candel Torres

Conference name: International Technology, Education and Development Conference

Publication year: 2019

Journal: INTED proceedings

Book title : INTED 2019 Proceedings : 13th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Valencia, Spain. 11-13 March, 2019.

Journal name in source: 13TH INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE (INTED2019)

Journal acronym: INTED PROC

First page : 5884

Last page: 5894

Number of pages: 11

ISBN: 978-84-09-08619-1

ISSN: 2340-1079

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2019.1441

Web address : http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/inted.2019.1441

Abstract

Computer science is a domain with increasingly significant impact on our everyday life, yet it has had no established position within the general education in most countries. Computational thinking (CT) is considered an increasingly important skill in many frameworks of 21st century competence created by government as well as private sector players nationally and internationally. This exploratory study sheds light on children's conceptual change in computational thinking with an intervention-based research design utilizing interview and think-aloud methodology. The results indicate a large ontological reorganization in the framework theory of different phenomena related to computer science; there seems to be a fundamental shift towards a process point of view related to the accommodation to CT.