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Active Learning by Visual Programming: Pedagogical Perspectives of Instructivist and Constructivist Code Teachers and Their Implications on Actual Teaching Strategies and Students' Programming Artifacts
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Kesler, Avital; Shamir-Inbal, Tamar; Blau, Ina – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2022
The integration of visual programming in early formal education has been found to promote computational thinking of students. Teachers' intuitive perspectives about optimal learning processes -- "folk psychology" -- impact their perspectives about teaching "folk pedagogy" and play a significant role in integrating educational…
Descriptors: Programming, Coding, Constructivism (Learning), Intuition
Professional Development of Code and Robotics Teachers through Small Private Online Course (SPOC): Teacher Centrality and Pedagogical Strategies for Developing Computational Thinking of Students
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Hadad, Shlomit; Shamir-Inbal, Tamar; Blau, Ina; Leykin, Eynat – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2021
This study explored (1) pedagogical strategies in Educational Coding and Robotics (ECR) learning which can develop computational thinking of students and (2) the degree of teacher centrality in the ECR classroom. In addition, we investigated (3) the added value of the Small Private Online Course (SPOC) to teacher professional development (TPD). We…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Programming