1Introduction
The course of Informatics was introduced in the Greek elementary schools’ Reformed Curriculum in
the Academic Year 2010-2011 and was entitled: “Technologies for Information and Communication”
(Ministry of Education, 2010). As far as I.C.T. Literacy is concerned, the main objective of the New
Curriculum goes far beyond the use of Computer only as a cognitive tool and highly encourages its
further diffusion and usage as a means for all disciplines. As Warren, et al. (2009) suggest, students
need to participate actively in the learning procedure through interesting authentic activities, thus
leading them to much more than a good grade in an exam.
The basic learning objectives for an exploratory approach to knowledge that the New Curriculum
suggests can be found in the module “Programming the Computer”, through which a variety of
programming tools (included KODU) are proposed.
The teaching of programming to beginners holds significant difficulties at all educational levels
(Satratzemi, et al., 2003). Those difficulties do not only apply to the teaching method but to the
programming environments as well. In order to overcome such difficulties a variety of new educational
programming environments and programming microworlds have been developed. The intervention
presented in this paper mainly aimed to explore the potential of Cooperative Group-Learning activities
in order to introduce pupils to the principles of programming by using the KODU software.