Signs of learning in middle school computing education

Programming has been part of Swedish elementary school curriculum for six years and the aim of this full paper is to find out how teachers can design programming activities so that students engage and learn. A mix-methods research project with a social semiotic, multimodal theoretical framework - De...

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Published in:Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference pp. 1 - 9
Main Authors: Kjallander, Susanne, Akerfeldt, Anna, Mannila, Linda, Heintz, Fredrik
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 08.10.2022
Subjects:
coding
Collaboration
designs for learning
digital
Education
Encoding
K12 education
Mathematics
Merging
multimodal
programming
Semiotics
ISSN:2377-634X
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Summary:Programming has been part of Swedish elementary school curriculum for six years and the aim of this full paper is to find out how teachers can design programming activities so that students engage and learn. A mix-methods research project with a social semiotic, multimodal theoretical framework - Designs for learning - is used to investigate teaching and learning in a class during three years. The results in this small-scale study indicate that collaboration is a successful didactic design for programming lessons in school. Computational thinking is prevalent and both digital skills (such as coding) and digital competencies (such as understanding the impact of technology in society) are practiced and met in programming lessons merging Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics.
ISSN:2377-634X
DOI:10.1109/FIE56618.2022.9962658