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Weng, Xiaojing; Ng, Oi-Lam; Cui, Zhihao; Leung, Suzannie – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2023
Creativity, one of the cornerstones of students' 21st-century skills, is regarded as an important learning outcome of science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) education. Meanwhile, problem-based digital making (DM), which combines the child-friendly programming activities of DM with problem-solving elements, is an emerging…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Development, 21st Century Skills, Problem Based Learning
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Cheng, Li; Wang, Xiaoman; Ritzhaupt, Albert D. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2023
Computational thinking is believed to be beneficial for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) learning as it is closely related to many other skills required by STEM disciplines. There has been an increasing interest in integrating computational thinking into STEM and many studies have been conducted to examine the effects of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, STEM Education, Computation, Thinking Skills
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Nikolaos Pellas – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2025
Tangible programming tools (TPTs) are promising teaching aids in programming courses due to their interactivity and ability to enhance early childhood students' computational thinking, spatial reasoning, and executive function skills. However, it remains unclear whether TPTs support these skills simultaneously. This study examines the impact of…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Spatial Ability, Executive Function
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Amenyo, John-Thones – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2012
Carefully engineered playable games can serve as vehicles for students and practitioners to learn and explore the programming of advanced computer architectures to execute applications, such as high performance computing (HPC) and complex, inter-networked, distributed systems. The article presents families of playable games that are grounded in…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Computer Games, Computer Uses in Education, Programming