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Two-hour station-based microintervention workshop with Scratch, Makey Makey, and micro:bit–Maqueen including an introductory machine-learning component

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Evidence · 2 claims (1 for, 1 mixed) · 1 study (1 causal), q2 · 1 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description

A two-hour face-to-face workshop in the ICT course of the Bachelor's Degree in Primary Education, designed as a feasible microintervention within regular teacher education timetables. It featured three hands-on stations with teacher guidance: programming with Scratch (sequences, loops, conditionals, debugging), interaction with Makey Makey boards (conductivity and physical-digital interaction), and controlling Maqueen robots with micro:bit (sensor-based control including a line-following challenge). An introductory machine-learning component provided "an initial conceptual approximation to machine learning, rather than to develop operational ML skills," explaining how data classify patterns and how models are trained from examples. A total of 105 students participated in four groups of 25–30.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Teacher guidance to introduce the tools and the logic underlying each challenge; rotating stations with specific objectives and tasks aligned with different aspects of computational thinking

Constraints

  • The machine-learning component did not involve technical development or training of machine learning models; the study design does not isolate whether differences are attributable to the intervention content or to any structured active-learning experience

Target Learners

  • first-year pre-service Primary Education teachers

Learning Goals

  • computational thinking concepts (sequencing, loops, conditionals, abstraction, debugging)
  • algorithmic logic and parallelism
  • perseverance in iterative problem solving

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Susana Sánchez Castro, Mª Ángeles Pascual Sevillano, Rogelio Buceta Otero, Javier Fombona Cadavieco. (2026). Developing computational thinking in teacher education: a brief experience with coding, robotics, and machine learning. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-026-10744-6
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title Two-hour station-based microintervention workshop with Scratch, Makey Makey, and micro:bit–Maqueen including an introductory machine-learning component
description A two-hour face-to-face workshop in the ICT course of the Bachelor's Degree in Primary Education, designed as a feasible microintervention within regular teacher education timetables.
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