Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
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In recent years we have witnessed a movement that seeks to pro- mote teaching of computer programming in schools worldwide (European Schoolnet, 2014), also in Canada. This movement is primarily focused on the lack of IT professionals that exists today and is expected to be increased in the coming years (National Science Foundation, 2014). How- ever, educators and scholars are more interested in the benefits that a child can acquire by learning to code regardless of the field of their future professional activity (Resnick, 2013; Papert & Solomon, 1971). In this presentation we will review investigations carried out in schools in which coding is not as an end in itself but a tool to develop other skills and to improve learning outcomes and motivation of students (Moreno-Leo´n & Robles, 2016). In order to support teachers to incorporate coding ac- tivities into their lessons, we will present freely available resources that educators from different educational levels and disciplines can use, such as the Dr. Scratch webtool (Moreno-Leo´n, Robles, & Roma´n-Gonza´lez, 2015), and we will discuss some of the initiatives led by Programamos/We code, a Spanish non-profit organization that promotes the development computational thinking skills from early ages.
The work of the authors has been funded in part by the Madrid Region under eMadrid (S2013/ICE-2715).
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