A preliminary report on the use of robots with elementary school students
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
Computer programming with middle school students
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
Communications of the ACM - Scratch Programming for All
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The researchers have conducted weekly after-school computer laboratory sessions with fifth and sixth graders using visual programming languages and both robots and a virtual environment. Following several individual exercises in the virtual environment, teams of students were formed and asked to perform a multi-step task in both the virtual environment they work with regularly and an unfamiliar version of the robot environment. Upon completion of the tasks it was clear that the students have a strong grasp of multi-step problems and are able to identify the salient steps of the multi-step problem and translate it to the two different environments.