Research on the Application of Gamification Programming Teaching for High School Students' Computational Thinking Development

Computational thinking, as one of the core literacies of the Chinese IT courses, is an important area of IT education in primary and secondary schools. This research aims to improve the level of computational thinking of high school students by using Minecraft as a tool for Python gamified programmi...

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Published in2023 IEEE 12th International Conference on Educational and Information Technology (ICEIT) pp. 144 - 149
Main Authors Qu, ZhiWei, Liu, JiaMing, Che, Lu, Su, YanXiu, Zhang, Wei
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 16.03.2023
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Collaboration
computational thinking
Data models
Education
game-based learning
gamification programming
high school information technology
Information technology
Problem-solving
Task analysis
Urban areas
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Summary:Computational thinking, as one of the core literacies of the Chinese IT courses, is an important area of IT education in primary and secondary schools. This research aims to improve the level of computational thinking of high school students by using Minecraft as a tool for Python gamified programming teaching design and analyzing the effectiveness of 60 high school students' improvement in algorithmic thinking, problem solving, creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration after the teaching practice. The research results show that gamified programming teaching can significantly improve high school students' computational thinking, providing a new teaching approach and ideas for high school IT education and computational thinking development.
DOI:10.1109/ICEIT57125.2023.10107843