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Stories Children Write While Coding: A Cross-disciplinary Approach for the Primary Classroom

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Price, Colin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2173-9897 and Price-Mohr, R. (2018) Stories Children Write While Coding: A Cross-disciplinary Approach for the Primary Classroom. Cambridge Journal of Education, 48 (6). pp. 735-747. ISSN 0305-764X Online: 1469-3577

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This paper presents research on how children aged 5–11 can create stories through computer programming (coding). A novel ‘Story-Writing-Coding’ engine is introduced where children realise their imagined stories through code that results in animations representing their stories. Analysis of how they manipulated code to represent story meaning is presented, together with a hypothetical model of the strategies they used in composition. Using the context of multimodal literacy, it is argued that coding can be thought of as a form of literacy and that taking this perspective may lead to benefits for children as both literacy learners and also learners of computer programming. While the authors have worked with 103 children, the results presented in this paper are drawn from an in-depth analysis of 20 stories with associated code together with observations by the authors. It was found that children are able to manipulate code creatively to obtain meaningful stories and successfully use the modes of print, static and moving images

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Staff and students at the University of Worcester can access the full-text via the UW online library search. External users should check availability with their local library or Interlibrary Requests Service.
Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords:	story writing, primary literacy, new literacies, multimodality, systemic functional theory, computer programming, coding
Subjects:	L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1501 Primary Education T Technology > T Technology (General)
Divisions:	College of Business, Psychology and Sport > Worcester Business School
Related URLs:	Publisher http://library.worc.ac.uk/
Depositing User:	Colin Price
Date Deposited:	07 Feb 2018 14:27
Last Modified:	02 Sep 2020 11:08
URI:	https://worc-9.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/6394

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