Online Workshops for Lesson Study 2.0: Unplugged Computational Thinking in APEC Economies
APEC-TSUKUBA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE XVII
First Workshop: Unplugged Computational Thinking at Primary Education
Information
On the Era of Generative AI, the project proposed by Thailand and Japan promotes the Education to develop computational thinking (CT). Here, CT is the ways of thinking for problem solving with using Generative AI which works on Natural language. Since 2006, Japan and Thailand have been engaged in APEC Lesson Study project in relation to APEC HRDWG Education network issues and established APEC Lesson Study Network. It also co-proposed with Chile (2019) and Malaysia (2020). It produced the Curriculum Reform Recommendations for CT in APEC (2021) through overcoming COVID-19.
This workshop planned on these bases.
First Workshop is hosted by University of Tsukuba, Japan. Objective is to promote the educational actions in APEC region to unplug CT at Primary School Level. It will answer the following questions for teaching practice at Primary Level:
“How can we develop computational thinking without using computers?”
“What basic informatics content is suitable for primary school level?”
“How can we fit these lessons into our curriculum schedules?”
In relation to this project with collaboration of Lesson Study Network members, Japan, Chile and Thailand members prepared the booklet ‘Unplugged Computational Thinking’ with collaboration of Indonesia and Malaysia members. This first workshop uses it to demonstrate the way to develop computational thinking without computer and with computer at Primary School Level and promotes Lesson Study on the issue in APEC: It provides a strategy to overcoming Digital Divide.
It is preparation of the second workshop which will be hosted by Khon Kaen University, Thailand, as for the implementation of Lesson Study.
