by L. Echeverría and R. Cobos
Abstract:
In this paper we present a STEM education initiative. This initiative involves an improved learning approach by means of the implementation of collaborative learning techniques. The proposed approach promotes computational thinking skills in a group manner to improve the learning of geometry. Two case studies were performed with primary school children in the fourth grade at the Comfacor School (Montería-Colombia). The aim of these studies was to analyse the effects of the improved approach in three aspects: the children' motivation, satisfaction and performance. The obtained results provide evidence that the learning of geometry was enhanced thanks to the proposed approach implemented based on a computational thinking strategy.
Reference:
Improving the Students Computational Thinking Skills With Collaborative Learning Techniques (L. Echeverría and R. Cobos), In IEEE Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologias del Aprendizaje, volume 14, 2019.
Bibtex Entry:
@ARTICLE{8894360,
author={L. {Echeverría} and R. {Cobos} and M. {Morales}},
journal={IEEE Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologias del Aprendizaje},
title={Improving the Students Computational Thinking Skills With Collaborative Learning Techniques},
year={2019},
volume={14},
number={4},
pages={196-206},
abstract={In this paper we present a STEM education initiative. This initiative involves an improved learning approach by means of the implementation of collaborative learning techniques. The proposed approach promotes computational thinking skills in a group manner to improve the learning of geometry. Two case studies were performed with primary school children in the fourth grade at the Comfacor School (Montería-Colombia). The aim of these studies was to analyse the effects of the improved approach in three aspects: the children' motivation, satisfaction and performance. The obtained results provide evidence that the learning of geometry was enhanced thanks to the proposed approach implemented based on a computational thinking strategy.},
keywords={computer aided instruction;geometry;groupware;mathematics computing;STEM;students computational thinking skills;collaborative learning;STEM education;primary school children;Comfacor School;geometry learning;Moodle-G;Geometry;Tools;Programming profession;Education;Collaborative work;Computational thinking skills;Moodle-G;pair-learning of geometry;collaborative learning techniques},
doi={10.1109/RITA.2019.2952299},
ISSN={1932-8540},
month={Nov},}