Paper Info
Title
Make World, A Collaborative Platform to Develop Computational Thinking and STEAM.
Abstract
The demand for computer programming professionals in STEAM-related areas has rocketed in the last decade. Initiatives such as the Hour of Code or CodeWeek take advantage of online platforms like Code.org to reach millions of students through a one-hour introduction to computer science and computer programming. Despite the excellent curricular design of Code.org courses, we believe that learners could benefit from a platform where they can create their own programming challenges that can be shared, assessed and remixed by the rest of the users. We named this platform Make World (http://makeworld.eu). After more than one year of use, we studied how students and teachers used this tool to propose and solve learning activities where computational thinking and STEAM skills are developed at the same time. This paper describes the main characteristics of Make World and analyses the use and piloting phase where more than 500 students of primary education have participated to measure the impact of Make World in their learning. The result of this analysis provides a better understanding of the difficulties students face when using a technological platform for STEAM and computational thinking education.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/978-3-319-58515-4_5
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Computer-supported collaborative learning,Serious games and gamification,Technology-enhanced learning,Computational Thinking,STEAM
Simulation,Computer science,Computational thinking,Multimedia,Computer-supported collaborative learning,Computer programming,Primary education
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
10296
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mariluz Guenaga1169.13
Iratxe Mentxaka220.85
Pablo Garaizar3258.48
Andoni Eguíluz433.22
Sergi Villagrasa5659.56
Isidro Navarro6689.11