A Study on Software Education Using Physical Computing to Increase Computational Thinking in Elementary School Students

Abstract

In the information subject of the 2015 revised curriculum, computational thinking was emphasized as a core competency pursued in software education. This is because software education using physical computing connects reality with the computing environment, so it can approach real-life problem solving, so that learners can expect to improve their creative problem solving ability and software competency. In this study, by comparing elementary school A, which took coding class using physical computing, and elementary school B, which took coding class using only EPL, the aspect of coding class using physical computing and whether it helps to improve computational thinking was studied. As a result of the experiment, it was observed that learners were more interested in software education using physical computing and tended to actively participate in class. analyzed.