Title:

Improving the Students Computational Thinking Skills With Collaborative Learning Techniques [Download]

Authors:

Echeverría, Leovy and Cobos, Ruth and Morales, Mario

Index Terms:

Geometry;Tools;Programming profession;Education;Collaborative work;Computational thinking skills;Moodle-G;pair-learning of geometry;collaborative learning techniques

Abstract:

In this paper we present a STEM education initiative. This initiative involves an improved learning approach by means of the implementation of collaborative learning techniques. The proposed approach promotes computational thinking skills in a group manner to improve the learning of geometry. Two case studies were performed with primary school children in the fourth grade at the Comfacor School (Montería-Colombia). The aim of these studies was to analyse the effects of the improved approach in three aspects: the children' motivation, satisfaction and performance. The obtained results provide evidence that the learning of geometry was enhanced thanks to the proposed approach implemented based on a computational thinking strategy.

DOI:

10.1109/RITA.2019.2952299

How to cite:

Echeverría, Leovy and Cobos, Ruth and Morales, Mario, "Improving the Students Computational Thinking Skills With Collaborative Learning Techniques" in IEEE Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologias del Aprendizaje, pp. 196-206, Nov. 2019. doi: 10.1109/RITA.2019.2952299