In this episode I unpack Lee et al.'s (2020) experience report titled “Introducing coding through tabletop board games and their digital instantiations across elementary classrooms and school libraries," which investigates the transfer of understanding when students begin learning CS through a tabletop board game and switch to a digital coding environment.

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00:00 Intro

00:59 Abstract

02:28 My single sentence summary

02:41 Paper introduction

05:03 Review of literature

06:19 Design

08:21 Findings

11:09 Discussion

12:26 Lingering questions

12:29 How might interest in CS compare with the following treatment groups: a) playing the board games only, b) playing the board game and moving into Scratch, and C) using Scratch only?

14:19 Is the purpose of the study to analyze the intended impact of the unit itself, how the unit was taught, or how students embodied the unit?

19:21 Outro