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Table 7.8
Worksheet on PBL situations in computer science
Worksheet
The following statements were said by high school pupils while working on their software
projects in the computer lab
Assume that you are the computer science teacher of this class
Select five statements and for each of them:
Describe your reaction to the pupil's statement
Explain why you decided to answer the pupil in this particular way
Speculate the pupil's reaction to your response and the continuation of the dialogue between
you and the pupil
Pupils' statements
I do not know how to start
Why did I choose this project? I am so stupid
I cannot do it
How does the function XXX work?
I need a function that does….
I am so satisfied with my progress
The program does not do what I wanted it to do
The computer did not save the last version of my project. I quit!
I am raising my hand for half an hour and you do not approach me
How can I start working on it?
I do not want to present my project in front of the class
I do not understand the computer's response. Why did it print this message?
It does not work
How can I get 100 in the project?
What should I do now?
• Stage E: Summary
The summary of this activity should address the following issues, and, if
relevant, additional topics:
− The mentoring of software project development in the high school is
a complex task both from the technical perspective and the emotional
perspective.
− The mentoring of software projects requires the computer science
teacher to respond simultaneously to many pupils.
− When a computer science teacher responds to pupil's question, the
teacher should not solve the problem for the pupil, but rather guide the
pupil in a way that enables the pupil to move on.
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