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The aim of this report is to describe some aspects of teaching programming to teenagers from 10 to 13 years old. The examples, data and impressions were taken from some courses given in public and private schools in Mexico, Switzerland and Colombia. The paper is organized as follows: It starts with a description of the didactic proposal of ABZ-ETHZ under which the courses were given. Then the observations and reflexions are described with respect to several considerations: (a) The ubiquitous recreational and social use that children and young people make of the technology, (b) their motivation for programming, (c) reading and writing in language acquisition and ((d) strengthening and applying mathematics as a decisive aspect of the ability to think logically.
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We mean this a whole: how the workshop develops and how it is conducted.
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In September 2015 the Spanish edition of Introduction to programming with LOGO written by Juraj Hromkovic was presented. The institution which sponsored this edition was the CIMAT (Mathematics Research Center), which also organized a programming course for a group of 25 children from first and second year of high school in the city of Guanajuato in Mexico.
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Pestalozzi Kalendar 1974.
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According to Piaget [5], there are two phases in human development (although they are expressed in relation to moral behaviour). The first is known as the heteronomous phase and the second as the autonomous phase. This means, that in the first phase the child accepts the rules of the world as something given, as something concrete and explicit. In the second phase, the young person agrees with and understands consciously the way rules are formed and participates in the world that surrounds him or her.
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Herrera Loyo, A. (2018). Effects on the School Performance of Teaching Programming in Elementary and Secondary Schools. In: Pozdniakov, S., Dagienė, V. (eds) Informatics in Schools. Fundamentals of Computer Science and Software Engineering. ISSEP 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11169. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02750-6_3
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