SCHOOL PROGRAMMING AS LITERACY - THE CASE FOR BOXER

Authors
OREILLY D
Citation
D. Oreilly, SCHOOL PROGRAMMING AS LITERACY - THE CASE FOR BOXER, Journal of computer assisted learning, 14(1), 1998, pp. 51-58
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Education & Educational Research
Journal title
Journal of computer assisted learning → ACNP
ISSN journal
02664909
Volume
14
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
51 - 58
Database
ISI
SICI code
0266-4909(1998)14:1<51:SPAL-T>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
This paper considers the role of school programming using the BOXER en vironment. It gives details of a two-year research project in which a group of primary school children (aged 9 - 11) developed their underst anding of number through programming in BOXER. It argues that such pro gramming should be regarded as a new form of literacy and as such, dev eloped in concert with subject knowledge, and evaluated over the whole of schooling.