[HTML][HTML] Play with Coding Toys in Early Childhood Education and Care: Teachers' Pedagogical Strategies, Views and Impact on Children's Development A Systematic …

E Pollarolo, S Papavlasopoulou, F Granone… - Entertainment …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper presents a systematic literature review that aims to portray an overview of
pedagogical strategies that Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) teachers adopt to …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring children's learning experience in constructionism-based coding activities through design-based research

S Papavlasopoulou, MN Giannakos… - Computers in Human …, 2019 - Elsevier
Over the last few years, the integration of coding activities for children in K-12 education has
flourished. In addition, novel technological tools and programming environments have …

Educational robotics and tangible devices for promoting computational thinking

MG Funk, JM Cascalho, AI Santos… - Frontiers in Robotics and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Recently, efforts have been made to add programming activities to the curriculum that
promote computational thinking and foster 21st-century digital skills. One of the …

Enhancing computational thinking, Spatial reasoning, and executive function skills: The impact of tangible programming tools in early childhood and across different …

N Pellas - Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Tangible programming tools (TPTs) are promising teaching aids in programming courses
due to their interactivity and ability to enhance early childhood students' computational …

Robobo smartcity: An autonomous driving model for computational intelligence learning through educational robotics

M Naya-Varela, S Guerreiro-Santalla… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents the Robobo SmartCity model, an educational resource to introduce
students to computational intelligence (CI) topics using educational robotics as the core …

Implementing a maker culture in elementary school–students' perspectives

E Vuopala, D Guzmán Medrano… - Technology …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigated students' perspectives on working and studying within a maker
culture context. Participants were fifth-grade students (n= 18) in a Finnish elementary school …

Can a learning companion be used to continue teaching programming to children even during the COVID-19 pandemic?

JM Ocaña, EK Morales-Urrutia, D Pérez-Marín… - Ieee …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Learning how to program in Primary Education has attracted significant research in recent
years. It is unclear though how programming environments and languages should be …

Teacher observations of programming affordances for K-12 mathematics and technology

N Humble - Education and Information Technologies, 2022 - Springer
With future shortage of professionals with programming and computing skills, many
countries have made programming part of kindergarten–grade 12 curriculum (K-12). A …

A conceptual model of what programming affords secondary school courses in mathematics and technology

N Humble - Education and Information Technologies, 2023 - Springer
Due to increased need of professionals on the future labour market with competence in
programming, many countries have integrated programming in kindergarten to grade 12 (K …

Starting from 'scratch': Building young people's digital skills through a coding club collaboration with rural public libraries

W Kelly, B McGrath, D Hubbard - Journal of Librarianship …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
While digital infrastructure is clearly a critical factor in addressing the digital divide for rural
society, it is only one component in realising the benefits of information and communication …