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Yallihep, Mirac; Kutlu, Birgul – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
The purpose of this study was to measure the impacts of mobile serious games on fifth grade students' attitudes towards "Information Technology and Software" course and understanding of programming concepts. For this purpose, a five weeks long study was conducted in a private primary school in Turkey with randomly selected 36 fifth grade…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Computer Software, Student Attitudes, Programming
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Clarke-Midura, Jody; Sun, Chongning; Pantic, Katarina; Poole, Frederick J.; Allan, Vicki – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2019
Our work is situated in research on Computer Science (CS) learning in informal learning environments and literature on the factors that influence girls to enter CS. In this article, we outline design choices around the creation of a summer programming camp for middle school youth. In addition, we describe a near-peer mentoring model we used that…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Educational Environment, Females, Middle School Students
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Mayisela, Tabisa – South African Journal of Education, 2013
Mobile technology is increasingly being used to support blended learning beyond computer centres. It has been considered as a potential solution to the problem of a shortage of computers for accessing online learning materials (courseware) in a blended learning course. The purpose of the study was to establish how the use of mobile technology…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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Gasaymeh, Al-Mothana M.; Aldalalah, Osamah M. – International Education Studies, 2013
This study aimed to investigate the impact of using Short Message Service (SMS) as learning support tool on students' learning in an introductory programming course. In addition, the study examined students' perceptions of the advantages and disadvantages of the use of SMS as a learning support tool in their class. The participants in this study…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Written Language, Introductory Courses
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Martin, Taylor; Berland, Matthew; Benton, Tom; Smith, Carmen Petrick – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2013
In this paper, we present two studies examining how high school students learn to program in a mobile, social programming environment that we have developed and deployed ("IPRO"). IPRO is delivered, with an associated curriculum, as an iPod Touch app and is freely and publicly available. We find that the affordances of mobility and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Programming, Cooperation, Mobility