Programming In The Australian Curriculum: A Rationale And A Place
Document Type
Journal Article
Publisher
International Society for Technology in Education
Faculty
Faculty of Education and Arts
School
School of Education / Centre for Schooling and Learning Technologies
RAS ID
18005
Abstract
The release of the Digital Technologies curriculum for the Australian Curriculum has raised the perennial debate over the place of computer programming in school curricula. This paper seeks to provide a background to this debate and suggest a rationale for including programming, without exaggerating its role or diminishing other important components of the Digital Technologies curriculum. Through the construct of computational thinking, the researcher describes ways in which the development of programming concepts can occur from a student’s early years to secondary schooling and offers appropriate tools to support children’s learning. The new Australian Curriculum should provide the scaffolding for this conceptual development within the bigger picture of students learning to be problem-solving users and developers of digital technologies.
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Newhouse, C. P. (2014). Programming in the Australian Curriculum: a rationale and a place. Journal for Computing Teachers, Summer 2014(2014), 11-17. Available here