Can Pre-School Children Learn Programming and Coding through Guided Play Activities? A Case Study in Computational Thinking

Autor/inn/en	Critten, Valerie; Hagon, Hannah; Messer, David
Titel	Can Pre-School Children Learn Programming and Coding through Guided Play Activities? A Case Study in Computational Thinking
Quelle	In: Early Childhood Education Journal, 50 (2022) 6, S.969-981 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Critten, Valerie) ORCID (Messer, David)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1082-3301
DOI	10.1007/s10643-021-01236-8
Schlagwörter	Preschool Children; Programming; Coding; Play; Learning Activities; Communication Disorders; Communication Problems; Computation; Thinking Skills; Clubs; Cooperation; Logical Thinking; Troubleshooting; Mathematics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Programmierung; Codierung; Spiel; Lernaktivität; Kommunikationsstörung; Kommunikationsbarriere; Denkfähigkeit; Club; Klub; Co-operation; Kooperation; Störfall; Mathematik
Abstract	Guided play activities were developed so that coding clubs could promote computational thinking skills in preschool children. The clubs involved fifteen children aged between 2 and 4 years, including a group of children with communication difficulties. The children took part in an action-research scoping study over three coding clubs involving six 45-60-min sessions. The activities were developed to teach computational skills and, ultimately, concepts of programming and coding. The findings suggested that the children began to develop many of the skills necessary for programming and coding as well as computational thinking skills such as collaboration, logical thinking and debugging algorithms. However, they found programming specific algorithms into Bee-Bots complicated and they needed support from adults to direct the robots along routes on simple maps. Overall, the guided play activities could be used in nurseries and preschool establishments to teach early computational thinking skills. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01