A supporting framework for the creation of digital stories and learning programming by the students within Kodu, Scratch and Storytelling Alice
Panagiotis Psomos, Maria Kordaki · Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference · 2012
Introduction to programming is one of the main challenges of the didactics of computer science since programming is usually difficult for novice users. Different teaching approaches are studied aiming to stimulate the interest of novice programmers as well as to release students from the mental burden of memorizing syntax and grammatical rules. A teaching approach in this direction is learning basic programming structures through the creation of digital stories. Kodu, Scratch and Storytelling Alice are digital environments which support the creation of digital stories for the learning of programming. This paper presents a supporting framework for the creation of digital stories and learning of programming within the aforementioned digital storytelling environments. The aims of this framework are twofold: (a) to help students in their attempts to form the appropriate programs resulting these narratives and (b) to encourage the development of basic cognitive and metacognitive skills which may be developed through the creation of digital narratives by the students.