Rafael Herrero-Álvarez

Universidad de La Laguna | ULL · Departamento de Ingeniería Informática y de Sistemas

Emotions affect how we acquire knowledge, being one of the causes of the demotivation generated at the time of studying a new field. Computer Science does not always pique the interest of young people, so we carry out an analysis of emotions that are present in primary and secondary school students, around 8-9 years old and 12-13 years old, who eng...

En este trabajo se presenta una actividad de aprendizaje-servicio para una asignatura del Grado en Ingeniería Informática en la que se estudian lenguajes y paradigmas de programación. La actividad, de carácter voluntario, consiste en diseñar y ejecutar un ejercicio que permita promocionar entre los jóvenes las Ciencias de la Computación mediante el...

This report summarizes the information related to a PhD project that aims to develop an Open-Source Emotion-Based Adaptive Learning Support System through Computational Thinking activities. This paper outlines the proposed objectives and provides an update on the progress made in research to date.

En este trabajo se presenta una colección de actividades, junto con sus guías de evaluación, para una asignatura en la que se estudian paradigmas de programación. Se utiliza el lenguaje de programación multi-paradigma Ruby para plantear ejercicios de programación procedimental, orientada a objetos y funcional. Se trata de 11 actividades prácticas o...

Computational thinking could be described as the thought processes involved in formulating problems and representing their solutions in such a way that these solutions can be executed by an information processing agent (either a human, a computer, or combinations of both). Therefore, this process involves learning to think about how to represent an...

Although Computer Science has grown to become one of the most highly demanded professional careers, every year, only a small percentage of students choose a degree directly related to Computer Science. Perhaps the problem lies in the lack of information that society has about Computer Science itself, and particularly about the work computer scienti...

This paper presents a study of the emotions that are produced in pre-university students when performing Computational Thinking activities. Two strategies are compared in which the guided and discovery methodologies are interspersed. It is concluded that positive and ambiguous emotions are mainly produced, while negative ones have relatively low in...

This paper presents a study of the emotions that are produced in pre-university students when performing Computational Thinking activities. In the absence of an official document that deals what content of Computational Thinking should be taught at the national level, we carefully selected a set of activities called Piens@ Computacion@ULLmente, tha...

This work presents a curricular proposal of activities to include computational thinking skills in pre-university studies for students from 8-9 years old and 12-13 years old. This proposal is made for two modalities, one guided and the other by discovery, in which the development of solutions to different problems is proposed by designing an algori...

This work describes the development and implementation of the Comilona game. It has been crafted from the beginning trying to emphasize the educational content and the players enjoyment at the same time. The users can practice and develop their skills in Computational Thinking with little or no programming knowledge. The game target audience is 8 t...