Design and Development of Interactive Media to Promote Computational Thinking Skills for Children

Abstract

This research aimed to design and develop interactive media to promote computational thinking skills for first-grade primary students and to evaluate their satisfaction with the use of interactive media in the form of activity games to promote computational thinking skills using the concept of computational thinking and unplugged coding activities as learning tools. The developed media consisted of four types of activities: 1) decomposition game-based, 2) abstract game-based, 3) pattern recognition game-based, and 4) algorithm game-based. The media was developed in the form of a web application using Visual Studio Code and Unity Game Engine via HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and C# languages and stored with phpMyAdmin. The researcher collected data from interviews with 5 experts: experts in platform activity content design, experts in children's interactive media design, and experts in platform program development to ask for opinions on the design work and provide suggestions before improving the work. It was then tested, and the satisfaction of use was assessed with the sample group of 6 first-grade primary school students. It was found that the students were highly satisfied with the design (mean 2.70), highly satisfied with the functionality (mean 2.53), highly satisfied with the feeling of use (mean 3.00), and highly satisfied with the overall performance (mean 2.79).