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http://dx.doi.org/10.14352/jkaie.2019.23.5.469

The Effect of the Integrative Education Using a 3D Printer on the Computational Thinking Ability of Elementary School Students  

Lim, Donghun (Dongdae Elementary School)
Kim, Taeyoung (Dept. of Computer Education, Korea National University of Education)
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Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education / v.23, no.5, 2019 , pp. 469-480 More about this Journal
Abstract
One of the goals of the new 2015 revised curriculum is to cultivate the creativity of students who will live in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to create new things through diverse ideas and challenges based on basic learning skills. Accordingly, in order to solve the given problems rationally, the convergence problem solving ability that can process and utilize various areas of knowledge and information is becoming important. Therefore, in this study, we designed the integrative education using a 3D printer based on Tinkercad modeling and applied it to the class to investigate the effect on the improvement of computing thinking ability of elementary school students. To verify the contents of the study, two classes of 25 sixth-grade elementary school students were divided into an experimental group and a controlled group. For the experimental group, 12 classes of convergence education programs using a 3D printer were applied for about three months, and the same amount of general curriculum was conducted for the control group. After that, the t-tests were carried out using the pre-post test to measure the effectiveness of the computational thinking ability. After the application of the program, the experimental group showed statistically significant improvement in computational thinking ability, but the controlled group showed no statistically significant difference. The results show that convergence education using the Tinkercad modeling-based 3D printer has a positive effect on the improvement of computing thinking ability of elementary school students.
Keywords
3D Printer; Tinkercad; Integrative Education; Computational Thinking Ability; Elementary Software Education;
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