"Are There Gears and Belts Inside the Computer?": Preliminary Results of Research on Preconceptions of 6-9-Graders.

The revised Czech national computing curriculum for grades 6–9 entails the topic of how digital devices work. Up to date materials for teaching this topic are lacking in the Czech context. Our goal is to create such materials. As a first step, we mapped preconceptions of children from grades 6–9 about how a digital devices work and what hardware parts they comprise of (N = 53, semi-structured interviews). Preliminary analysis uncovered some preconceptions not discovered by existing literature. This poster presents these preconceptions.

Citation: Anna Yaghobová, Anna Drobná and Cyril Brom (2023). "Are There Gears and Belts Inside the Computer?": Preliminary Results of Research on Preconceptions of 6-9-Graders. In ITiCSE 2023: Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 2. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.

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