Howland, Kate, Good, Judith, Robertson, Judy and Manches, Andrew (2015) Every child a coder?: research challenges for a 5--18 programming curriculum. IDC'15 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, Boston, MA, USA, June 21-24, 2015. Published in: IDC '15 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children. 470-473. Association for Computing Machinery ISBN 978-1-4503-3590-4

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Abstract

The current drive in many countries to teach computing, particularly programming, to all from an early age, has potential to empower and support children in creative and problem-solving tasks. However, there are a number of challenges in ensuring that computing curricula, tools and environments embody appropriate progression and engender motivation for the topic across the school years. This workshop will consider the key research challenges in learning coding throughout childhood, with contributions from developmental psychologists, educators, researchers of children's programming, and designers of developmentally appropriate technologies for children.

Item Type:	Conference Proceedings
Keywords:	Children; coding; programming; design
Schools and Departments:	School of Engineering and Informatics > Informatics
Research Centres and Groups:	Creative Technology
Related URLs:	http://idc2015boston.org/
Depositing User:	Judith Good
Date Deposited:	13 Aug 2018 08:18
Last Modified:	13 Aug 2018 14:42
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/77744

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