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Yukun Xu; Hui Li – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2025
Primary school students, despite their vulnerability to cyberattacks, lack targeted cybersecurity education. Using Scopus and Google Scholar, this scoping review analyzed 15 articles (2014-2024) following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) Extension for Scoping Reviews guidelines to examine the landscape of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Computer Security, Educational Trends, Computer Science Education
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Theodosios Sapounidis; Sophia Rapti; Julie Vaiopoulou – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2025
Communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity are regarded as core skills of the twenty-first century required to succeed in life and working frameworks. Meanwhile, new technologies have entered educational settings to facilitate children's development of competencies. During the last decade, several studies have been conducted…
Descriptors: Robotics, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Kindergarten
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Hao-Yue Jin; Maria Cutumisu – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Computational thinking (CT) is considered to be a critical problem-solving toolkit in the development of every student in the digital twenty-first century. Thus, it is believed that the integration of deeper learning in CT education is an approach to help students transfer their CT skills beyond the classroom. Few literature reviews have mapped…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Problem Solving, Artificial Intelligence
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Adiv Gal – Elementary School Journal, 2025
This study explores the impact of a hackathon as a pedagogical tool to promote twenty-first-century skills among fifth-grade students in a rural elementary school in northern Israel. The research question focuses on the extent to which a hackathon can develop these skills from the students' own perspective. Utilizing a case-study approach, the…
Descriptors: Programming, Computer Science Education, Computer Uses in Education, Skill Development
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Murai, Yumiko; Ikejiri, Ryohei; Yamauchi, Yuhei; Tanaka, Ai; Nakano, Seiko – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Cultivating children's creativity and imagination is fundamental to preparing them for an increasingly complex and uncertain future. Engaging in creative learning enables children to think independently and critically, work cooperatively, and take risks while actively engaged in meaningful projects. While current trends in education, such as maker…
Descriptors: Creativity, Imagination, Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education
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Wei Yan; Priyanka Parekh; Ashish Amresh; Paige Prescott – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2025
Indigenous communities remain among the most underrepresented groups in computing and STEM fields, facing systemic barriers to equitable participation in computer science (CS) education. This study examines how Indigenous-serving teachers, through a sustained professional development (PD) program, design and implement culturally responsive…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Computer Science Education, Faculty Development, Disproportionate Representation
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Weng, Xiaojing; Cui, Zhihao; Ng, Oi-Lam; Jong, Morris S. Y.; Chiu, Thomas K. F. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2022
Amid the maker movement, educators are proposing various making activities with programmable artifacts to prepare students for coping with the challenges in the twenty-first century. Today, the "4C" skills--critical thinking, creativity, communication, and collaboration--are regarded as significant learning outcomes in Science,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Problem Based Learning, Experiential Learning, Problem Solving
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Wong, Gary Ka-Wai; Cheung, Ho-Yin – Interactive Learning Environments, 2020
The role of programming in computing education for children has grown rapidly in recent years with the proliferation of specially designed programming tools, which is grounded on Seymour Papert's theoretical work in Constructionism. Studies show that some children can develop computational thinking skills and practices with programming activities…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, 21st Century Skills, Computation
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Kakavas, Panagiotis; Ugolini, Francesco C. – Research on Education and Media, 2019
This study presents a 13-year (2006-2018) systematic literature review related to the way that computational thinking (CT) has grown in elementary level education students (K-6) with the intention to: (a) present an overview of the educational context/setting where CT has been implemented, (b) identify the learning context that CT is used in…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Elementary School Students, Programming
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Tran, Yune – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2019
The Computer Science Teachers Association has asserted that computational thinking equips students with essential critical thinking which allows them to conceptualize, analyze, and solve more complex problems. These skills are applicable to all content area as students learn to use strategies, ideas, and technological practices more effectively as…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Elementary School Students, Pretests Posttests, Computer Science Education
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Araceli Martinez Ortiz; Beth Bos; Shaunna Smith – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2015
The use of integrated science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) instruction has the affordances of combining harmonious content area connections into real-world experiences that are both engaging and challenging. This article introduces findings from a study that used an integrated robotics module to expose in-service and preservice…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Robotics, Learning Experience, Teacher Education Programs
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed.; Mascia, Maria Lidia, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
These proceedings contain the papers of the 16th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2019), held during November 7-9, 2019, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) and co-organised by University Degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning, Engineering Education, Critical Thinking
Baptista Nunes, Miguel, Ed.; McPherson, Maggie, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2014, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (Lisbon, Portugal July 15-19, 2014). The e-Learning 2014 conference aims to address the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education