Marina Umaschi Bers

Gebundenes Buch

Coding as a Playground

Programming and Computational Thinking in the Early Childhood Classroom

Beschreibung

Coding as a Playground, Second Edition is the first book to focus on how young children (ages 7 and under) can engage in computational thinking and be taught to become computer programmers, a process that can increase both their cognitive and social-emotional skills.

Autor

Marina Umaschi Bers is Professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development with a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer at Tufts University, U.S.A. She heads the Developmental Technologies (DevTech) research group where she studies innovative ways to promote positive childhood development through new learning technologies. Marina co-developed the ScratchJr programming language in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab and the PICO company. She is also the creator of KIBO, a robotics platform for children aged 4 to 7 that can be programmed with wooden blocks (no screen needed), which allows young builders to learn programming and engineering while integrating arts and crafts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9780367900960
• ISBN-10: 0367900963
• Artikelnr.: 60005518