Programming computers in early childhoof education
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21556/edutec.2018.65.1103Keywords:
teaching, computational thinking, programming, early childhood, technology, roboticsAbstract
This article analyzes a robot programming teaching experience in an Early Childhood Education center. Based on classroom observations, students practice sheets, and focus group responses; we identified that children develop complex ideas about what a computer is, what programming is, an what programmers do. Robot programming using an iconic language also allows developing computational concepts such as sequence, parameter, loops and conditional. 5-year-old children established correspondence between the code that they programmed and the robot movements, learning the concept of computers as a programmable machine. The 3 to 4-year-old children do not mastered this idea.
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CONICET
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
CS4HS
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