The Design And Development Of The Computational Thinking Educating Game Which Supports Independent Inquiry

The curriculum standards for information technology in ordinary senior high schools(2017 edition)released by the ministry of education lists computational thinking as the core quality of information technology,which means that computational thinking has become a necessary ability for senior high school students.Computational thinking is not only the key to the operation training and behavior thought of information technology courses,but also the foundation of the future development of the core literacy of information technology disciplines.Computational thinking has become the accomplishment of learning and applying knowledge that everyone should be mastered.At present,the methods of cultivating computational thinking mainly include visual programming software,algorithm and program design teaching and gamification teaching.The integration of computational thinking in educational games opens up a new way for the cultivation of computational thinking.On the basis of the computational thinking,education games and theory of software design,using App Inventor development tool to design and develop Computational Thinking Training Camp,the calculation thinking,logical algorithm,recursive algorithm and greedy algorithm combined with computational thinking into question solution to the situation of the game,in the form of four difficulty progressive thinking game module,combined with computational thinking showroom module form the organic integration of Computational Thinking Training Camp.The design goal of Computational Thinking Training Camp is to improve students' computational thinking ability,in the game design,the actual problems such as digital pursuit,hannotta myth,trapped robbers,classic racing experience were abstractly designed into the algorithm model,and theconnotation of each algorithm was mapped into the problem solving process of the game task.Computational Thinking Training Camp Game scenario design get through of the logic game module,the recursive thinking game module,greedy thinking module,integrated gaming experience module,computing the game situation of thinking showroom module design to make learners independently explore to find and solve problems,make different attempts based on their own thinking and cognition,adjust and take actions according to the feedback given by the system,and so on,until the task of the game is completed.In this process,students learn to think flexibly from different perspectives,and consciously seek the best solution to the problem,so as to form their cognition of computational thinking and improve their computational thinking ability.Computational thinking is a kind of thinking.If we want to evaluate whether a person's computational thinking ability can be improved,we must analyze from multiple perspectives such as behavioral data and performance comparison.In this study,students from two classes of the first grade of the high school affiliated to Inner Mongolia normal university were selected as the trial subjects,two trial tests of Computational Thinking Training Camp were conducted respectively.and from the user behavior data of each thinking game module,the results of computational thinking test questions,and the results of user attitude questionnaire,the conclusion is drawn that Computational Thinking Training Camp can effectively improve students' ability of computational thinking.