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An Architectural Design of ScratchThAI: A conversational agent for Computational Thinking Development using Scratch

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Kantinee Katchapakirin,

Chutiporn AnutariyaAuthors Info & Claims

IAIT '18: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advances in Information Technology

Article No.: 7, Pages 1 - 7

https://doi.org/10.1145/3291280.3291787

Published: 10 December 2018 Publication History

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Scratch is a visual, block-based programming language, adopted as a computational thinking development tool in elementary education among many countries. Thailand has also recently included Scratch as part of the computing science course in its basic education. However, Thailand is facing a shortage of ICT teachers who are skillful in Scratch programming, especially in small provincial schools. This research aims to overcome the shortage by developing ScratchThAI, a Scratch tutorial chatbot. It is designed to assist young learners directly through a messaging platform. By giving supports through a textual conversation, more relevant advice, knowledge, and resources could be provided precisely. Different levels of each computational thinking concept are extracted and evaluated by the designed assessment algorithm. Extra predefined exercises are assigned based on the analyzed learner's strengths and weaknesses in order to actively improving the learner's understanding. Moreover, gamification is incorporated to engage and motivate young learners in computational thinking development.

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Index Terms

An Architectural Design of ScratchThAI: A conversational agent for Computational Thinking Development using Scratch
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Knowledge representation and reasoning
      1. Ontology engineering
    2. Natural language processing
  2. Machine learning
    1. Learning paradigms
      1. Supervised learning
        Supervised learning by classification
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computational thinking

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