The Design And Development Of Educational Game To Promote The Development Of Computational Thinking

Computational thinking is one of the critical thinking to master programming courses which has attracted widely international attention in the domain of computer technology currently. The cultivation of learners’computational thinking ability has become more attention by domestic researchers, therefore, how to effectively develop learners’ computational thinking ability has been urgent to solve. Teaching games combined educational and entertainment at an organic whole, so that learners will not be too addicted to the game. Teaching educational games can provide a kind of "learning by playing" or "learning by doing" environment, enables learners to master knowledge while playing games and developing learners’thinking ability.Currently, The research about develop computational thinking ability mostly with passive infusion, it is difficult to cause the learner’s interest in learning, and the effect is not significant. In order to solve this problem, in this study from the perspective of computational thinking, on the carrier of teaching games and the basis of subject knowledge to design and develop a teaching game to promote the development of computational thinking, Expectations of improving the learners’thinking ability through the process of gaming experience.According to the purpose and content of this research, based on case analysis and game software design method on the literature analysis, mainly focuses on the following four aspects.(1) Fundamental research of promoting the development of computational thinking. On the basis of literature review, this paper analyzes the connotation of computational thinking and research status about computational thinking training, the basis of the theory teaching game design. Then based on computing thinking related theory research, combined with the theory of game design, analysis of game design elements, seeking the effective ways of computational thinking combined with teaching game, aimed to providing the theory support for the design and development of teaching games.(2) The construction of instructional design framework for promoting the development of computational thinking. On the basis of the analysis of domestic and foreign teaching game design model, presents the design of digital game elements and basic structure. By using the theory of instructional design construct the instructional design framework of teaching games.(3) The software design model of promote the development of computational thinking. Starting from the objective of promoting the development of computational thinking, in the demand for digital instructional game based on the analysis, overall design and detailed design, this study constructing the system design model of teaching game to promote the development of computational thinking.(4) The design and development of the game case. In Flash CS5 for development platform, this study used the Action Script 3.0 language, selection of junior middle school information technology curriculum, design and development to promote the development of computational thinking game example.By collecting a large number of research topic relevant literature at home and abroad, related research results and combining with actual, this paper made the following progress through a series of work.(1) The paper constructed the digital instructional game design framework of teaching. This study integrated the game design theory, instructional design theory and related theory of computational thinking, from the goal of learning, learner characteristics, tasks and game design processes such as learning situation, combining the teaching of digital game design, the process of thought and problem solving to build a digital game framework to promote the development of computational thinking.(2) The paper presents the software design model of educational game. From the perspective of the software system design, based on this study, we propose the teaching game design framework to construct the teaching game of the software design mode, the game system is divided into game function and support module, provided the supporting for the development of educational games.(3) The paper developed a digital teaching games for promoting the development of computational thinking.The paper choses VB programming language "magic loop statement" as learning content, under the guidance of instructional design framework and software design scheme, development of the "robot recruit" game instance, verified the feasibility of the game.Due to the limit of time and capacity, the teaching games have achieved a certain research results at the same time, there are also some problems, computational thinking combining with teaching game is not yet perfect. So, it needs to be completed in the future.