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Hahai: Computational Thinking in Primary Schools

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Abstract

Nowadays, society needs to keep up with the development of new technologies; the children of the new generation are seen as “digital natives”, although they are not necessarily able to use digital devices to their fullest potential.

The “Hahai project” introduces the application of digital devices within the educational approach throughout the Hahai app. The aim of the project is to introduce digital skills and computational thinking through “Digital Storytelling” in primary schools; with the aim of developing problem-solving and the creative approach. Furthermore, these skills are extremely valuable in modern society and for the future.

This paper explores the ideas behind the creation of the project, the development of the app, the testing in first-grade classes of primary school, the statistics obtained from the latter and the final conclusions.

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  1. Department Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Via Luigi Vanvitelli, 1, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Sergio Tasso, Osvaldo Gervasi & Flavio Sabbatini

  2. Giovanni Cena Primary School of Perugia, ICPg4, Via Dalmazio Birago, 6, 06124, Perugia, Italy

    Anna Locchi

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  1. Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

    Sanjay Misra

  2. University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  3. University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  4. Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

    Elena Stankova

  5. Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

    Vladimir Korkhov

  6. Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy

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  7. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Ana Maria A.C. Rocha

  8. Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia

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  9. Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Bernady O. Apduhan

  10. Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy

    Eufemia Tarantino

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Tasso, S., Gervasi, O., Locchi, A., Sabbatini, F. (2019). Hahai: Computational Thinking in Primary Schools. In: Misra, S., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2019. ICCSA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11620. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24296-1_24

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