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The biggest challenge involved physical and tactile activities that taxed
student memory and organization. For instance, while students were able to
more fully engage in a binary code activity, some had difficulty remembering
what they had learned at each stage of the multi-step task. This caused them
to work very slowly and lose interest. As a result, we created (and continue
to create) additional enhancements to support memory and organization to
accompany these tasks.
Auditory and Technological Enhancements:
With practice, many
students increased their comfort in discerning differences among sonified
data. One student commented that he liked hearing the data because it
"!gave him a feel for the graph." However, it was clear that some students
needed more scaffolded listening experiences to sufficiently strengthen their
auditory skills in order to compare and contrast data points within a set.
Through
JBrick, many students developed basic programming skills.
While writing code is more challenging than using the 'drag and drop' blocks
in a visual programmer, several software features provided support. In
particular, many students felt that hearing where they made an error helped
them to find and correct it more easily. One student found that programming
was "like [learning] a language; as you practice it gets easier." But he and
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