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Gwo-Jen Hwang; Hsin Huang; Hui-Yun Chen – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Enhancing students' civic literacy is considered an essential educational goal in the 21st century. Therefore, in the teaching process, how to provide students with opportunities to solve problems and how to provide immediate feedback to help students make correct decisions when facing real problems are important and challenging issues. Digital…
Descriptors: Civics, Positive Attitudes, Learning Processes, Behavior
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Lorien Cafarella; Lucas Vasconcelos – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Middle school students often enter Computer Science (CS) classes without previous CS or Computational Thinking (CT) instruction. This study evaluated how Code.org's block-based programming curriculum affects middle school students' CT skills and attitudes toward CT and CS. Sixteen students participated in the study. This was a mixed methods action…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Computation, Thinking Skills, Problem Solving
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Yi-Shiuan Chou; Huei-Tse Hou; Kuo-En Chang – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The trend in history education is gradually emphasizing the development of historical thinking and collaborative problem-solving skills, which are expected to enhance the breadth and depth of learners' thinking. The integration of game-based learning with collaborative problem-solving activities designed for historical thinking is expected to help…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes
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Gwo-Jen Hwang; Wen-Hua Chuang; Lu-Ho Hsia – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Many scientific concepts and theorems are often abstract and challenging to relate to real-life problems, making it difficult for students to grasp them. Therefore, some researchers have attempted to enhance students' understanding by employing a contextual learning approach, which allows students to apply scientific knowledge to real situations…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Secondary School Science, Chemistry, Science Instruction
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Agbo, Friday Joseph; Oyelere, Solomon Sunday; Suhonen, Jarkko; Laine, Teemu H. – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
Understanding the principles of computational thinking (CT), e.g., problem abstraction, decomposition, and recursion, is vital for computer science (CS) students. Unfortunately, these concepts can be difficult for novice students to understand. One way students can develop CT skills is to involve them in the design of an application to teach CT.…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Game Based Learning, Computation, Thinking Skills
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Ng, Davy Tsz Kit; Lee, Min; Tan, Roy Jun Yi; Hu, Xiao; Downie, J. Stephen; Chu, Samuel Kai Wah – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
In recent years, with the popularity of AI technologies in our everyday life, researchers have begun to discuss an emerging term "AI literacy". However, there is a lack of review to understand how AI teaching and learning (AITL) research looks like over the past two decades to provide the research basis for AI literacy education. To…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Technological Literacy, Literacy Education
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Khamparia, Aditya; Pandey, Babita; Mishra, Brijendra Pratap – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
In conventional classroom driven instructor training, disabled student achieved low personality & motivation, more mental load due to lack of practical learning and unsuitable usage of learning material through different simulated contexts. Therefore, intent of proposed study is to integrate microworld game-based learning to different learning…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Game Based Learning, Physical Disabilities, Elementary School Students