Connected Code (eBook)

Why Children Need to Learn Programming

Quinn Burke, Yasmin B. Kafai (Autoren)

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2014
200 Seiten
The MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-31924-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Why every child needs to learn to code: the shift from "e;computational thinking"e; to computational participation.Coding, once considered an arcane craft practiced by solitary techies, is now recognized by educators and theorists as a crucial skill, even a new literacy, for all children. Programming is often promoted in K-12 schools as a way to encourage "e;computational thinking"e;-which has now become the umbrella term for understanding what computer science has to contribute to reasoning and communicating in an ever-increasingly digital world.In Connected Code, Yasmin Kafai and Quinn Burke argue that although computational thinking represents an excellent starting point, the broader conception of "e;computational participation"e; better captures the twenty-first-century reality. Computational participation moves beyond the individual to focus on wider social networks and a DIY culture of digital "e;making."e;Kafai and Burke describe contemporary examples of computational participation: students who code not for the sake of coding but to create games, stories, and animations to share; the emergence of youth programming communities; the practices and ethical challenges of remixing (rather than starting from scratch); and the move beyond stationary screens to programmable toys, tools, and textiles.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.7.2014
• Vorwort: Mitchel Resnick
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung ► Unterrichts-Handreichungen
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI)
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• ISBN-10: 0-262-31924-1 / 0262319241
• ISBN-13: 978-0-262-31924-9 / 9780262319249