How to write a scientific paper/Conversational Tool

Introduction

In formulating our framework for categorizing the ways that novices use block-based languages, we looked to the literature and found two distinct dimensions along which mediational roles differ that could lead to a productive classification that fit our emerging findings.

• Kafai/Connected Code: Why Children Need to Learn Programming
• Resnick/Lifelong Kindergarten

Discussion

Vignettes

Student vignettes are presented here to describe the experience, but no claim is made that these data are representative of all students’ experiences with /CT4G/ as a whole.

These brief vignettes show examples of how computing can align with, and leverage, existing student interests and ideas to enable new forms of Making and computational participation.

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