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    Propuesta de Metodología Basada en Metáforas para la Enseñanza de la Programación a Niños
    (Sociedad de Educación del IEEE (Capítulo Español), 2018-03-21) Pérez-Marín, D.; Hijón-Neira, R.; Martín-Lope, M.
    Interest in studying Computer Science has been extended worldwide to children. However, it is unclear which educational method should be used. Teachers need some guides to approaching this task. Therefore, this paper proposes using metaphors such as recipe/program (and sequence), pantry/ memory, and boxes /variables. It also illustrates the possibility of applying these metaphors to any resource available to the teacher. Four step-by-step scripts of how to use the metaphors in class are provided, with the opinions of 62 children (enrolled in 4th, 5th and 6th Primary courses, 9 to 11 years in age) and their teacher’s opinion.
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    A first proposal of Pedagogic Conversational Agents to develop Computational Thinking in children
    (ACM, 2017-10-18) Morales Urrutia, E. K.; Ocaña, J. M.; Pérez-Marín, D.; Tamayo-Moreno, S.
    Pedagogic Conversational Agents are interactive systems that teach by talking to the students. They have been used in several domains to develop competences such as storytelling or negotiation from University to Pre-Primary Education. However, in the literature, no cases of using agents for teaching programming to develop computational thinking in children have been found. In the last decades, there is a growing interest in developing computational thinking in children. According to some authors, if children develop computational thinking, they will be able to solve not only computer problems but their daily life problems in a better way. It is under research which educational technologies and methodologies can be more adequate depending on the context to achieve this goal. In this paper, it is proposed, for the first time, the use of Pedagogic Conversational Agents to develop computational thinking in children. Given the complexity of designing this new type of agent, and as it has been done in previous occasions when trying to design a new agent, the MEDIE methodology will be followed to eventually integrate the agent into the classrooms.