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Development of computational thinking skills in primary school through digital storytelling with Scratch

Digital storytelling is a process of telling multimedia stories that can be interactive and contain game elements like labyrinths, sorting games, or puzzles. By combining the steps of the traditional storytelling process, creating multimedia, and defining game elements, teachers can encourage their students to acquire many fundamental skills including computational thinking. As a tool for both digital storytelling and computational thinking development, teachers may use a visual programming language Scratch. This paper presents a model for educating primary junior grade school teachers to use digital storytelling with Scratch for achieving learning outcomes of different school subjects as well as for the development of computational thinking skills of their students. The model is included in the blended learning course developed within the Erasmus+ project GLAT (Games for Learning Algorithmic Thinking). The paper brings experiences about educating the teachers enrolled in the GLAT course and engaged in designing interactive Scratch stories.

Digital storytelling ; Scratch ; educational games ; GLAT project

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