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China is gradually deepening its education reform. Children’s programming education in STEAM education has caused widespread concern, however, there is no corresponding method for teaching aids design. In this paper, we conducted a comprehensive review of literatures on the development and application of STEAM education in China and globally. After analyzing current situation of children’s programming education in China, primary design principles of children’s programming teaching aids are summarized. Service design theory was utilized during the research. Five elements of the children’s programming curriculum system were summarized and design method of children’s programming teaching aids were proposed with analyzing the common points of service design and children’s programming courses. This research integrated service design concepts into children’s programming education, summarized design methods of Chinese children’s programming aids through the relationship of five elements including people, media, scenes, actions, and goals. In addition, this research proposed a new design framework named “Children – Technology – Traditional culture – Children”. The results have positive value for improving the current homogenization of the Chinese programming market, and can promote the emergence of more children’s programming teaching aids with Chinese characteristics.
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Zhu, Z., Miao, X., Qin, Y., Pan, W. (2021). Create Children’s Programming Teaching Aids with Chinese Characteristics: Provide a Method Framework to Assist Designers in Designing. In: Zaphiris, P., Ioannou, A. (eds) Learning and Collaboration Technologies: New Challenges and Learning Experiences. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12784. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77889-7_12
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