Education Alice 3: Concrete to Abstract.

The article presents a discussion of the variety of possible pedagogical approaches to the teaching of computer science. It focuses on the lack of diversity among the students who are typically attracted to the field, and the potential of alternative instructional approaches for improving the succes...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 8; pp. 27 - 30
Autores principales: Dann, Wanda, Cooper, Stephen
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Aug2009
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          Director, Alice Project and associate teaching professor, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
          Associate professor and director, Center for Visualization, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA.
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        Computer training
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        Virtual reality in education
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