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Harlow, Danielle Boyd; Leak, Anne Emerson – Computer Science Education, 2014
Recent studies in learning programming have largely focused on high school and college students; less is known about how young children learn to program. From video data of 20 students using a graphical programming interface, we identified ideas that were shared and evolved through an elementary school classroom. In mapping these ideas and their…
Descriptors: Programming, Cooperative Learning, Concept Mapping, Elementary School Science
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Denning, Peter J.; Hiles, John E. – Computer Science Education, 2006
Transformational Events is a new pedagogic pattern that explains how innovations (and other transformations) happened. The pattern is three temporal stages: an interval of increasingly unsatisfactory ad hoc solutions to a persistent problem (the "mess"), an offer of an invention or of a new way of thinking, and a period of widespread adoption and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Innovation, Sequential Approach, Prediction