Fostering Computational Thinking in Secondary School through Music - An Educational Experience based on Google Blockly

Adriano Baratè, Andrea Formica, Luca A. Ludovico, Dario Malchiodi

2017

Abstract

We propose a methodology especially conceived to exploit the musical media in order to vehiculate some aspects in the realm of computational thinking to pupils of the lower secondary school (6th to 8th grades). The related activities are based on a visual programming language whose execution generates a melody shown using both its traditionally-notated musical score and its audio reproduction. This language provides the basic programming tools, such as simple and structured variables, iterations and so on. The learning activities are based on challenging small groups of students to solve programming exercises of increasing difficulty.

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Baratè A., Formica A., Ludovico L. and Malchiodi D. (2017). Fostering Computational Thinking in Secondary School through Music - An Educational Experience based on Google Blockly . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-240-0, pages 117-124. DOI: 10.5220/0006313001170124


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@conference{csedu17,
author={Adriano Baratè and Andrea Formica and Luca A. Ludovico and Dario Malchiodi},
title={Fostering Computational Thinking in Secondary School through Music - An Educational Experience based on Google Blockly},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2017},
pages={117-124},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006313001170124},
isbn={978-989-758-240-0},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - Fostering Computational Thinking in Secondary School through Music - An Educational Experience based on Google Blockly
SN - 978-989-758-240-0
AU - Baratè A.
AU - Formica A.
AU - Ludovico L.
AU - Malchiodi D.
PY - 2017
SP - 117
EP - 124
DO - 10.5220/0006313001170124