{"id":32,"date":"2018-11-16T19:55:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2018-11-19T15:14:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T15:14:49","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KmxYYtgEHqc\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<style>\nbody {\n  text-align: justify;\n}\n<\/style>\n<p><strong><em>Crabs &amp; Turtles: A Series of Computational Adventures\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>is a life-size board-game that\u00a0aims at providing an unplugged and low-threshold introduction to computational thinking.\u00a0In particular, the games aim at introducing basic coding concepts and computational thinking processes to primary school children. <em>Crabs &amp; Turtles<\/em> consists of three different games:<\/p>\n<p>i. The <em><strong>Treasure Hunt<\/strong><\/em>, ii. The <em><strong>Race<\/strong><\/em>, and iii. <strong><em>Patterns<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, all three games are available in English, German (<em>\u201cSchildkr\u00f6ten &amp; Krabben\u201d<\/em>) and Greek (<em>\u201c\u03a7\u03b5\u03bb\u03ce\u03bd\u03b5\u03c2 &amp; \u039a\u03ac\u03b2\u03bf\u03c5\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2\u201d<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><em>Crabs &amp; Turtles<\/em> share common ideas with concepts of the educational Logo-Turtle and Logo-inspired games and gamified educational activities. The life-size dimensions of the games allow playability within the classroom or open-air spaces. The chosen un-plugged mode takes into account common concerns on introducing coding to primary school children and offers a smooth and children friendly transition to digital more complex educational programming environments. Moreover, we feel that using a non-digital mode is crucial because it fosters the experience that possible applications of coding concepts and CT processes are not restricted to digital contexts but also generalize to real-life conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The games can be used as a standalone game interventions however, they are intended to be part of a structured <a href=\"https:\/\/uni-tuebingen.de\/fakultaeten\/wirtschafts-und-sozialwissenschaftliche-fakultaet\/faecher\/fachbereich-sozialwissenschaften\/hector-institut-fuer-empirische-bildungsforschung\/forschung\/aktuelle-studien\/hector-kinderakademien\/hector-core-courses\/verstehen-wie-computer-denken.html\">course<\/a> curriculum currently offered in several <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hector-kinderakademie.de\/,Lde\/Startseite\">Hector Children&#8217;s Academies<\/a> in Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg which builds upon skills acquired within the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crabs &amp; Turtles: A Series of Computational Adventures\u00a0is a life-size board-game that\u00a0aims at providing an unplugged and low-threshold introduction to computational thinking.\u00a0In particular, the games aim at introducing basic coding concepts and computational thinking processes to primary school children. Crabs &amp; Turtles consists of three different games: i. The Treasure Hunt, ii. The Race, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/index.php\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabsturtles.iwm-tuebingen.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}