• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.79-88
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• 2014

Authentic programming environment makes App Inventor interesting educational programming language. However, there are not sufficient studies for usefulness of App Inventor as educational programming language, so proper design of App Inventor education is not available. This article aims to design proper programming education plan using App Inventor. A survey was conducted to ask for appropriation of App Inventor education to teachers and students. As a result, teachers and students were satisfied with App Inventor for programming language in elementary and secondary schools, due to easy-to-use programming environment and real product run in their devices. But learners need to have prior knowledge to use App Inventor and teachers have to manage learners' devices properly. Finally, revised elementary and secondary programming education plan using App Inventor was presented.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.61-66
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• 2017

As the fourth industrial revolution becomes more popular and advanced services such as artificial intelligence and Internet of Things technology are widely commercialized, awareness of the importance of software is spreading. Recently, software education has been taught not only in elementary school and college but also in college. Also, there is a growing interest in computational thinking needed to solve problems through computing methodology and model. The purpose of this study is to design an app inventor course for non-majors software education based on computational thinking. As a result of the study, six detailed competencies of computational thinking were derived, and six detailed competencies were mapped to the app inventor learning elements. In addition, based on the computational thinking modeling, I designed an app inventor class for students who participated in IT curriculum of university liberal arts curriculum.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2013.07a
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• pp.287-288
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 스마트폰의 확산으로 각광받고 있는 안드로이드 앱을 구현하기 위해 앱 인벤터라는 비주얼 프로그래밍 툴을 활용하는 법을 제안한다. 스마트폰 앱을 만드는 과정에서 컴퓨터 전공 초보 학생들이 느끼는 프로그래밍 언어 문법의 어려움을 최대한 덜어주고 문제해결능력과 논리 교육을 우선시함으로써 프로그래밍에 대한 재미와 흥미를 느끼게 해준다. 이로 인해 학생들의 중도탈락을 예방하고 전공 취업률을 높이는 효과를 기대할 수가 있다. 본 논문에서는 앱 인벤터를 통해 학생들이 구현한 간단한 예제를 살펴보고 교육적 효과와 활용 방안을 제안한다.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.13-22
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• 2017

Recently, the emphasis on education of informatics gifted elementary students is to make creative leader in knowledge-based society. It need the high mental faculties and problem solving ability to solve many problem situations for students. In this paper, we developed App Inventor programming education plan. We taught this plan to gifted elementary students and observed the effects of their problem solving ability, self-efficacy and achievement of programing process. In order to achieve the research goals, we designed the appropriate App Inventor programming plan for gifted elementary students and we changed the Learning Model of Renzulli's three step for gifted students to achieve this research goals. Designed learning program was utilized by twenty informatics gifted elementary students for 15 times during five weeks period. In conclusion, we confirmed that App Inventor programming education for gifted elementary students affected the problem solving ability, self-efficacy and achievement of programing process positively.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.49-60
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• 2018

In many countries, recently computer programming eduction has become mandatory for K-12 students. Generally since programming is difficult for K-12 students to learn, a lot of previous works have been published in which the study motivation and class satisfaction increased when game programming was applied to programming classes. We investigated a research in which we used game programming in the programming classes for middle-school students, and analyzed educational effects. In this paper, we described the specification of the games and our class model that were applied in the research. Also, we analyzed changes made to computation thinking abilities, creative thinking abilities, and perceived support for programming after the programming classes. As a result, it was found that those abilities and the perceived support were increased. Additionally, we applied Havruta learning, a kind of paired learning, in the programming class, and have known that it increased the educational outcome with respect to the traditional method.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.371-380
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• 2017

SW education is considered important in the present age where various sciences converge. According to this tendency, SW education was included in the regular education course in Korea, which aims to develop the learner's CT. Therefore, researches on CT and educational tools are being activated. App Inventor is a simple app development tool that has many advantages over traditional tools. In this study, we developed and applied a SW instruction program that uses an App Inventor to develop CT for elementary school students. Moreover, CT was classified into two elements-calculative perception and calculative creativity- and performed tests after applying SW instruction programs. Furthermore, attitude towards computer were classified into three elements-c computer anxiety, computer preference, and computer confidence- and conducted tests. After performing paired t-test pretest-posttest matching samples on test outcomes, it was found that the CT of the learners who applied the program was increased, and the attitude towards computer also showed a positive change.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.1495-1507
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• 2013

Smart device appeared as IT technology develops and it caused the proliferation of digital contents. It is because that App technology supports to install and use the contents in the smart device easily. App is developed by the creativity and the programming skill and the commercial value is generated in the process of development. In this paper, we taught how to develop APP to elementary school students by Android App Inventor program and observed the changes of their thinking through reflection-note which describes thinking of them. This research was carried out for 28 elementary school students, 5th and 6th grade. We found the attitude that students try to solve problem actively with the high interest. They enjoy showing developed App to others easily and quickly, which is the characteristic of smart devices. We also found a phenomenon that the students consider commercial value.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.635-637
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to apply other programming tools such as robots parish. The robot was utilized for Lego Mindstorms NXT. Programming tools were used to block generic programming tools were used in the NXT-G, was used as a simulation programming tools MSRDS, mobile App Inventor is a programming tool (App Inventor). It can lead to interesting effects of learning and learning based on three programming tool above.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.615-624
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• 2014

According to the rapid growth and popularization of the SMART device, the society is being changed greatly and importance of SW education is being emphasized. Also many student have a lot of interests about mobile application programming. The latest study suggests using the robots in the programming education may help to induce learners' interest and motivation, participation, achievement. So in this research, I designed a programming educational plan for SW education using robot and mobile application development tool(App Inventor) and applied them. And I conducted a survey four ares such as class, robot, App Inventor, robot and App Inventor. As a result, learner's response of interest and satisfaction was very positive commonly at four areas. In particular, learners could get programming result immediately using smart phone and could control the robot using smart phone, so learner's interest had increased especially. The conclusion is that suggested plan for SW education using robot and mobile application development tool is useful for programming education.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.04a
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• pp.344-347
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• 2016

유비쿼터스 환경 시대에 맞춰 현재 스마트 디바이스의 발달과 시장의 확대로 스마트 미디어 기기의 보급이 급속도로 확산되고 있으며 많은 교육용 어플리케이션 또한 개발되고 있는 중이다. 이러한 교육용 어플리케이션들은 지식기반사회의 학습도구로서 지식접근 및 창출에 중요한 요소인 인터넷과 웹을 활용하게 되고 이동성과 편의성을 추구하는 모바일기기를 통해 학습이 가능하도록 지원하는 프로그램이다. 본 연구는 모바일러닝 기반의 '창의적 문제해결(CPS, Creative Problem Solving)' 모형을 활용하는 교육용 앱에 대한 설계방안을 제시하고자 하며 연구의 목적은 대학 교육에서 학생들의 창의적 사고와 문제해결능력 향상을 돕는 모바일러닝 기반의 학습환경을 설계하는 데 있다. 제안하는 학습지원 도구는 모바일 앱 형태로 제작되며 학습활동에 있어 다양한 창의적 사고과정 활동과 표현방식, 상호작용성 등의 기능을 통해 학습자의 고차원적인 사고능력을 향상시키는 인지적 도구로서 활용될 수 있도록 설계하였다. 개발환경은 안드로이드용 앱 인벤터 프로그램을 사용하였으며 앱 인벤터 서버환경에서 제공되는 컴포넌트와 이벤트 핸들러를 이용하여 교수자모드와 학습자모드의 앱을 각각 설계하였다. 교수자 앱은 학습활동 제공을 의미하는 프로바이더(Provider) 모드 기능이 포함되며 학습자 앱은 CPS 활동을 위한 학습활동 모드 기능이 설계된다. 대부분의 창의성 관련 앱들은 그래픽작업을 통한 두뇌활동 향상 프로그램, 체험활동 위주의 프로그램 등으로 출시가 되어 있으나 교수-학습 활동을 위한 창의적 문제해결활동 관련 앱은 존재하지 않는 상태이므로 수업활동에서의 활용측면에서 가치가 있을 것으로 기대된다.