Members of the GLAT project team participated at the 4th International Conference on Education and Distance Learning that was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka on May 18th. Prof. Nataša Hoić-Božić presented the paper “Games for Learning Algorithmic Thinking – GLAT Project” at the conference (co-authors are Martina Holenko Dlab, Lucia Načinović Prskalo, Jože Rugelj, and Irena Nančovska Šerbec). The paper describes context and reasons for starting the GLAT project, gives an overview of initiatives to encourage coding at a young age and highlights the need for education of teachers, presents planned activities and intellectual outputs of the GLAT project as well as expected impact.
ICEDL 2018