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Pelizzari, Federica; Marangi, Michele; Rivoltella, Pier Cesare; Peretti, Giulia; Massaro, Davide; Villani, Daniela – Research on Education and Media, 2023
We propose the results of a research that combines the educational and psychological media approach, to verify the pedagogical potential of coding and robotics in the learning processes of 4-year-old children at the cognitive and socio-relational level. The study investigated the impact of unplugged and plugged coding on the skills of spatiality,…
Descriptors: Programming, Play, Young Children, Robotics
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Kakavas, Panagiotis; Ugolini, Francesco C. – Research on Education and Media, 2019
This study presents a 13-year (2006-2018) systematic literature review related to the way that computational thinking (CT) has grown in elementary level education students (K-6) with the intention to: (a) present an overview of the educational context/setting where CT has been implemented, (b) identify the learning context that CT is used in…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Elementary School Students, Programming
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Giannandrea, Lorella; Gratani, Francesca; Renieri, Alessandra – Research on Education and Media, 2020
This article reports on the results of a teacher training course in which 41 teachers, working together with three university researchers, experienced a different way to engage in meaningful teaching and learning activities in design, coding and robotics. The course was run in an Italian school during the lock-down period of the COVID-19…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Professional Development, Robotics, Programming