{"id":488,"date":"2016-10-31T10:53:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T08:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/?page_id=488"},"modified":"2019-04-10T11:20:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T08:20:57","slug":"computer-science-cs-in-middle-schools","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/?page_id=488","title":{"rendered":"Computer science (CS) in middle schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Computer science (CS) in middle schools<\/h1>\n<h2>Leading team<\/h2>\n<p>Prof. Mordechai Ben-Ari<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Michal Armoni<\/p>\n<h2>Postdocs and students<\/h2>\n<p>Rivka Taub (no longer with the project)<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Orni Meerbaum-Salant (no longer with the project)<\/p>\n<p>Fatima Kaloti-Hallak (no longer with the project)<\/p>\n<h2>R&amp;D team<\/h2>\n<p>Dr. Ronit Ben-Bassat Levy<\/p>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>We developed an introductory CS course based upon MIT&#8217;s Scratch visual programming environment. Research showed that students do not develop viable CS knowledge using Scratch unless it is explicitly taught, but that Scratch facilitates the learning of standard programming languages later in high schools. We are currently investigating the use of Scratch to teach subjects like physics and biology in middle schools.<\/p>\n<h2>Related articles<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>O. Meerbaum-Salant, M. Armoni, M. Ben-Ari. Learning computer science concepts with Scratch. Computer Science Education, 2013,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/08993408.2013.832022\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/08993408.2013.832022<\/a><\/li>\n<li>R. Ben-Bassat Levy, M. Ben-Ari. Scratch in the Service of Science Education. Scratch Conference, Barcelona, Spain, July, 2013.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/scratch2013bcn.org\/node\/171\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/scratch2013bcn.org\/node\/171<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Link to project website<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/scratch\/scratch_en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/scratch\/scratch_en\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer science (CS) in middle schools<br \/>\nLeading team<br \/>\nProf. Mordechai Ben-Ari<br \/>\nProf. Michal Armoni<br \/>\nPostdocs and students<br \/>\nRivka Taub (no longer with the project)<br \/>\nDr. Orni Meerbaum-Salant (no longer with the project)<br \/>\nFatima Kaloti-Hallak (no longer with the project)<br \/>\nR&amp;D team<br \/>\nDr. Ronit Ben-Bassat Levy<br \/>\nSummary<br \/>\nWe developed an introductory CS course based upon MIT&#8217;s Scratch visual programming environment. Research showed that students do not develop viable CS knowledge using Scratch unless it is explicitly taught, but that Scratch facilitates &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":58,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-488","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446,"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/488\/revisions\/1446"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}