This research takes safety knowledge of traffic safety, food safety and electricity safety as the educational content to design the teaching. It puts forward a theoretical model of safety education APP for primary school students based on embodied cognitive theory, completes the design and development of the software, and finally evaluates the effect. Data show that using this software can help students learn and master safety knowledge. In addition, due to the good software autonomy and interaction, most students are willing to accept this kind of security education.
Textual Programming Languages (TPL) in which traditional textual representation of program source codes are used. Examples of TPL include Processing8, Arduino IDE9, and IDLE (Python GUI)10. VPLs are very popular in programming education for young children like primary schoolchildren and secondary schoolchildren, because they do not require knowledge of programming syntax and provide an environment where compile-time errors are nonexistent . There is also a report saying that VPLs can form long-term opinions about the enjoyment of programming in the mind of children compared with conventional programming languages . Click Here
Though VPLs have such merits over TPLs, they also have some limitations such as not giving advanced students the opportunity to improve their skills, or allowing students to acquire bottom-up development process (selecting commands, and then combining them for desired effect). Though VPLs are widely used in programming education for young children, they are not widely used for professional software development. Therefore, at some stage, students should change the language to TPLs. However, it has not be acknowledged when TPLs should be introduced to the young children. Therefore, in this research, it was investigated if TPLs could be used in the programming education for upper primary schoolchildren. More Info
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