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Melodic - Teaching Computational Thinking to Visually Impaired Kids

Authors Rui Costa, Cristiana Araújo , Pedro Rangel Henriques

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Rui Costa
  • Centro ALGORITMI, Departamento de Informática, University of Minho, Campus Gualtar, Braga, Portugal
Cristiana Araújo
  • Centro ALGORITMI, Departamento de Informática, University of Minho, Campus Gualtar, Braga, Portugal
Pedro Rangel Henriques
  • Centro ALGORITMI, Departamento de Informática, University of Minho, Campus Gualtar, Braga, Portugal

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This work has been supported by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the R&D Units Project Scope: UIDB/00319/2020.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Isabel Barciela and Marta Paço both from Íris Inclusiva for their valuable comments and suggestions; Without their collaboration this work would not be possible.

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Rui Costa, Cristiana Araújo, and Pedro Rangel Henriques. Melodic - Teaching Computational Thinking to Visually Impaired Kids. In Second International Computer Programming Education Conference (ICPEC 2021). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 91, pp. 4:1-4:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.ICPEC.2021.4

Abstract

This paper presents a proposal, called Melodic, to develop Computational Thinking skills in kids with special educational needs, in this case blindness. The aim of this research is to characterize the subject and identify what are the current most used and best practises to teach this different way of Thinking to kids under those circumstances. In this paper more technical aspects are discussed, such as the architecture for the proposed application in order to accomplish the project goals. Melodic was carefully designed to have an intuitive interface for blind people and a seamless workflow, combining tactile hardware, and QR Code technology with a sound based output.

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  • Social and professional topics → Computational thinking
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  • Computational Thinking
  • Visual Impaired Students Education
  • Teaching through Music
  • Learning Resource

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