Sara Hinterplattner, Jakob S. Skogø, Corinna Kröhn, Barbara Sabitzer,
"The Children?s Congress: A Benefit To All Levels Of Schooling By Strengthening Computational Thinking"
, in International Journal of Learning and Teaching, Vol. 6, Nummer 1, 3-2020, ISSN: 1740-2875
Original Titel:
The Children?s Congress: A Benefit To All Levels Of Schooling By Strengthening Computational Thinking
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
To strengthen computational thinking and to increase the interest in STEAM subjects the Children?s Congress was developed. This congress brings teachers, university students and pupils together to work interdisciplinary on real-life problems. During this progress the pupils slip into the role of researchers while getting support by their teachers, university staff and university students. In every team one student from the Honors program of the Johannes Kepler University in Linz takes part. On the one hand this support should help the pupils in their projects and in their personal development, but on the other hand the students also get a lot of benefits out of this mentoring. To find out more about these benefits and to improve the congress for the next years the Honors students were asked to give feedback after the congress. In these interviews the Honors students described the Children?s Congress as a very inspiring and motivating project and that for all the participants. The results show that the students experienced a lot of appreciation through the work with the pupils, but also a lot of challenges. They see many benefits for the pupils, starting from the increasing academical knowledge to skills like team or time management. Furthermore, the benefit of getting used to computational thinking was described. Besides the advantages for the pupils as well as benefits for teachers were mentioned. All in all, the results show that the Children?s Congress successfully combines computational thinking, real-life problems, interdisciplinarity, project work and mentoring.
Sprache der Kurzfassung:
Englisch
Journal:
International Journal of Learning and Teaching
Volume:
6
Number:
1
Erscheinungsmonat:
3
Erscheinungsjahr:
2020
ISSN:
1740-2875
Anzahl der Seiten:
5
Reichweite:
international
Publikationstyp:
Aufsatz / Paper in sonstiger referierter Fachzeitschrift
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