Improving the Students Computational Thinking Skills With Collaborative Learning Techniques

Leovy Echeverría ^[1] ; Ruth Cobos Pérez ^[2] ; Mario Morales ^[3]
1. [1] Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
  
  Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
  
  Colombia
2. [2] Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  
  Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  
  Madrid, España
3. [3] Universidad de Córdoba (Colombia)
  
  Universidad de Córdoba (Colombia)
  
  Colombia
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Localización: Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologías del Aprendizaje: IEEE-RITA, ISSN 1932-8540, Vol. 14, Nº. 4, 2019, págs. 196-206
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- In this paper we present a STEM education initiative. This initiative involves an improved learning approach by means of the implementation of collaborative learning techniques. The proposed approach promotes computational thinking skills in a group manner to improve the learning of geometry. Two case studies were performed with primary school children in the fourth grade at the Comfacor School (Montería-Colombia). The aim of these studies was to analyse the effects of the improved approach in three aspects: the children' motivation, satisfaction and performance. The obtained results provide evidence that the learning of geometry was enhanced thanks to the proposed approach implemented based on a computational thinking strategy.