Research On Inquiry-Based Teaching Model For Cultivating Computational Thinking

With the development of the information society,countries all over the world pay more and more attention to the cultivation of students’ Computational Thinking(CT).Relevant researches have been carried out both at home and abroad on the definition of CT,teaching design,training methods,etc.Among them,the main body of computational thinking education research abroad is K-12 students,while domestic primary school studies are relatively few.In addition,most of the training in information technology courses in China focuses on computer knowledge and operational skills,failing to go deep into the training level of CT.In the Curriculum Standards of Information Technology for Compulsory Education recently released by the Ministry of Education,PRC,the cultivation content of each learning section is analyzed,and the importance of CT as one of the core qualities is made clear.However,based on the fact that elementary school students’ CT has not been sufficiently developed in the information science and technology curriculum,it cannot meet the current situation of the information age’s requirements on students’ core literacy of CT.Therefore,aiming at the problem of which teaching mode can effectively improve elementary school students’ CT at present,the author tries to construct an inquisition teaching mode oriented to the cultivation of CT.And it is applied and tested in practice teaching so as to provide reference for the education and teaching of CT.This research mainly uses experimental research method and investigation method,and the specific research contents are as follows:(1)Construction of teaching model.By sorting out the practical basis and internal logic of the construction of the teaching mode,the thesis constructs the inquisition teaching mode oriented to the cultivation of CT,which is divided into four links: independent learning,common learning,inquiry learning and experience learning.(2)Application of teaching model.Taking the third learning paragraph of Information Science and Technology curriculum in primary school,the teaching case of "Designing maze game" was applied in this teaching mode to carry out a two-month experimental research and investigation.(3)Test of application effect.Based on the three-dimensional framework of CT,the application effect of the inquiry teaching model is tested from three aspects: computing concept,computing practice and computing concept.Through the analysis of experimental data,the research results show that: Through the implementation of the exploratory teaching model oriented to the cultivation of CT,students’ computational concept level,computational practice level and computational concept level have been significantly improved,and it is found that the students in the teaching model of co-learning and learning experience of high participation,which indicates that the teaching model can also stimulate students’ enthusiasm for learning,cultivate their team cooperation ability,achieve emotional contact.On the whole,the inquisition teaching model oriented to the cultivation of CT has effectively improved the CT of primary school students.