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Reducing the Barriers for Computational Action: How Blocks-Based Programming Can Support Digital Empowerment
Sun 4 Nov 2018 11:10 - 11:20 at Beacon Hill - Empowerment & Broadening Participation
Computational action, by which learners are given opportunities to build projects with real-world applicability, is, we argue, a preferable way to engage young people in learning how to program computers. Mobile computing, as the dominant form-factor of computing currently, provides an especially meaningful opportunity for youth to create these projects. Meanwhile, platforms with powerful abstractions, that make operations that might otherwise be difficult simple, build student capability to create projects that enhance their computational action.
Sun 4 Nov Times are displayed in time zone: Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey change
Sun 4 Nov
Times are displayed in time zone: Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey change
11:00 - 11:10 Talk | Broadening Participation in Computer Science through Block Programming BLOCKS+ Pre-print | ||
11:10 - 11:20 Talk | Reducing the Barriers for Computational Action: How Blocks-Based Programming Can Support Digital Empowerment BLOCKS+ Mike TissenbaumUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champain, Josh SheldonMIT App Inventor, Hal AbelsonMIT Pre-print | ||
11:20 - 11:28 Other | Themed Session 2: Whole-group discussions BLOCKS+ | ||
11:28 - 11:31 Talk | Educational Robotics with a Twist BLOCKS+ Pre-print | ||
11:31 - 11:34 Talk | A Blocks-Based Approach to Internet of Things in MIT App Inventor BLOCKS+ Pre-print | ||
11:34 - 11:37 Talk | DevTech Lab - KIBO and ScratchJr Demo BLOCKS+ Pre-print | ||
11:37 - 11:40 Talk | CloudDB in MIT App Inventor BLOCKS+ | ||
11:40 - 12:00 Other | Themed Session 2: Breakout discussions and demos/posters BLOCKS+ |