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Blending mobile programming and liberal education in a social-economic high school

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Nabil El Ioini,

Luis CorralAuthors Info & Claims

MOBILESoft '16: Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems

Pages 123 - 126

https://doi.org/10.1145/2897073.2897096

Published: 14 May 2016 Publication History

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Mobile programming is one of the fastest growing approaches in many fields, such as marketing or e-commerce. From the educational perspective, this means that students should understand that they can build mobile applications (apps) without being professionals, and at the same time recognize their own potential to use technology in any professional path they choose. This goal is not trivial, even if students are in general curious and open to learn about the creation of apps. Indeed, especially in liberal education, students get discouraged upfront as they perceive programming as a difficult task. This paper describes a course that was created to fit the educational needs of a social-economic high school. Students take part of an interdisciplinary project in which the Software Engineering process is used to promote CT skills. The course was repeated twice and involved 29 students (8^th and 9^th grade).

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Fronza ICorral LPahl CIaccarino GKhazanchi DSiy HGrispos GKwaku Setor T(2020)Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Coding Camp through the Analysis of a Follow-up ProjectProceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education10.1145/3368308.3415391(248-253)Online publication date: 7-Oct-2020
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Fronza IPahl CSušanj B(2020)Agile Methods Make It to Non-vocational High SchoolsComputer Supported Education10.1007/978-3-030-58459-7_17(355-372)Online publication date: 10-Nov-2020
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58459-7_17
Fronza ICorral LPahl CGoda BZilora SGrispos GBogaard D(2019)Combining Block-Based Programming and Hardware Prototyping to Foster Computational ThinkingProceedings of the 20th Annual SIG Conference on Information Technology Education10.1145/3349266.3351410(55-60)Online publication date: 26-Sep-2019
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