When talking about media in primary school, often, one thinks of the use of computers during everyday classes every once in a while. When realizing that we live in a more and more digitalized world, this seems rather odd. The sole use of media in school is not sufficient to prepare children for a world that expects so much more. The fundamentals of computer science are strongly related to mathematics content and can therefore be linked to competences that children already learn today. The paper will present the evaluation of learning environments, developed with computer science content, to have a closer look at interactional processes that occur when working on a topic that is on the one hand strongly connected to e.g. mathematics but on the other hand fundamentally new for elementary school children and especially relevant in today’s society. We will focus on co-cooperative processes and consensus and dissent.
When talking about media in primary school, often, one thinks of the use of computers during everyday classes every once in a while. When realizing that we live in a more and more digitalized world, this seems rather odd. The sole use of media in school is not sufficient to prepare children for a world that expects so much more. The fundamentals of computer science are strongly related to mathematics content and can therefore be linked to competences that children already learn today. The paper will present the evaluation of learning environments, developed with computer science content, to have a closer look at interactional processes that occur when working on a topic that is on the one hand strongly connected to e.g. mathematics but on the other hand fundamentally new for elementary school children and especially relevant in today’s society. We will focus on co-cooperative processes and consensus and dissent.