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Title: Bringing Static Code to Life: The Instructional Work of Animating Computer Programs With the Body
Authors: Flood, Virginia J
DeLiema, David
Abrahamson, Dor
Issue Date: Jul-2018
Publisher: International Society of the Learning Sciences, Inc. [ISLS].
Citation: Flood, V. J., DeLiema, D., & Abrahamson, D. (2018). Bringing Static Code to Life: The Instructional Work of Animating Computer Programs With the Body. In Kay, J. and Luckin, R. (Eds.) Rethinking Learning in the Digital Age: Making the Learning Sciences Count, 13th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2018, Volume 2. London, UK: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Abstract: In this preliminary report, we propose a previously unidentified role that instructors' gestures may play in helping students evaluate existing computer code. We find that instructors use gesture to animate processes encoded in the static inscriptions of computer programs in order to make invisible, dynamic phenomena perceptible to students. Our findings contribute to a better understanding of the embodied instructional work of teaching programming.
URI: https://doi.dx.org/10.22318/cscl2018.1085
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