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Programming Goes Back to School.

The article focuses on the use of computer games to encourage middle school students to participate in computer science programs. It talks about the Scalable Game Design framework utilizing systemic integration of a game-design-based computational thinking (CT) curriculum. It states that it exposed...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 55; no. 5; pp. 38 - 41
Formato: Opinion
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery May2012
Materias:
Computer game programming
Middle school students
Curriculum planning
Learning
Academic motivation
Computer science education
Middle school education
Education
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Sumario:The article focuses on the use of computer games to encourage middle school students to participate in computer science programs. It talks about the Scalable Game Design framework utilizing systemic integration of a game-design-based computational thinking (CT) curriculum. It states that it exposed middle school students to CT concepts, motivated students to create complete games, allowed the objective measurement of CT learning objectives, and investigated pedagogical approaches and motivation.