Veel methodes CKV vragen de leerlingen om teksten te lezen, gekoppeld aan een schrijf- of tekenopdracht in het werkboek. De methodes houden weinig rekening met de uiteenlopende interesses en niveaus van leerlingen. Marthe Knaap is docent CKV op een school voor speciaal voortgezet onderwijs in Groningen …

Abstraction is considered an essential aspect of computational thinking. Primary schools are starting to include computational thinking into the curriculum. However, in order to guide their support, teachers need to know how to recognize abstraction. In this paper, we present how we can observe abstraction …

Computational thinking is taking an ever increasing role in education. According to the Netherlands institute for curriculum development there currently is little to no education on this topic in Dutch primary schools. Since teachers are the key to high quality education, it is important to know which …

This synopsis presents the preliminary results of a larger study that aims to uncover design principles for teaching computational thinking to primary school children. This research focuses on teaching computational thinking to 8-year-olds through Scratch Jr. By engaging in a cyclic process in which …

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Studenten hebben lessen ontworpen met daarbij specifiek aandacht voor het geven van ruimte, bieden van structuur en het flexibel ondersteunen van leerlingen. De student moet bijvoorbeeld bewust kiezen voor een bepaalde structurering van de les (bijv. DIM of empirische cyclus), hier na uitvoering op terugblikken …

Since concepts may have different meanings in different contexts, students have to learn to recontextualise them, i.e. to adapt their meanings to a new context. It is unclear, however, what characteristics a learning and teaching strategy for recontextualising should have. The study aims to develop such …