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Stanford Seminar - Cognitively Appropriate Computing Education for Young Learners

Stanford University via YouTube

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YouTube
Pricing

Free Online Course
Languages

English
Effort

51 minutes
Sessions

Self-Paced
Level

Advanced

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This seminar presents interdisciplinary research on designing cognitively appropriate and accessible computing education tools for young learners. It covers voice-driven storytelling and programming systems, children’s reasoning about virtual assistants, and a virtual robotics system for teaching reinforcement learning.

Syllabus

Introduction.
Learners Still Lack Access to Computing Education.
Interdisciplinary Approach Designing and Developing Computing Education Tools.
Thesis Statement.
Roadmap.
Existing Solutions Bypass Literacy.
Early Tools Support Concepts without Practices.
Computing and Storytelling By Voice.
Computational Learning Goals For the K-2 Grade Band.
Storytelling Learning Goals For K-2 Language Comprehension.
Needfinding with Educators and Students.
Three Key Design Goals.
Six Voice-based User Flows Storytelling.
Create a Story Scaffolded Decomposition, Abstraction, and Planning.
Each Child Told Three Stories.
Computing Recognition Task Scratch Animation Context.
Voice Interfaces Present Memory Challenges.
Instruction More Impactful in Scratch Jr.
Visual StoryCoder Yields Higher-Quality Stories.
Humans Can Robustly Reason About Agents.
Drawings Contain Human Features Before Age 6.
Typical Trajectory of False Belief Understanding Where will Rachel look for her raisins?.
Responses Follow False Belief Trajectory.
ARtonomous Training Autonomous Navigation Models To Integrate with Code.