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An, Song A.; Hachey, Alyse C.; Kim, So Jung; Tillman, Daniel A. – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2023
Traditionally, various meanings of "10" are systematically ignored in early childhood curriculum and children's understanding of numbers is restricted within the solitary mapping between the symbol "10" and quantity concept of "ten." This may be problematic for other ways that mathematics is used, both in modern life…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Numbers, Story Telling
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Price, Colin B.; Price-Mohr, Ruth M. – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2018
This paper presents research on how children aged 5-11 can create stories through computer programming (coding). A novel 'Story-Writing-Coding' engine is introduced where children realise their imagined stories through code that results in animations representing their stories. Analysis of how they manipulated code to represent story meaning is…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Story Telling, Programming, Coding
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Hagge, Julia – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the ways in which early adolescent programmers embed meaning in their digital media created within an online programming community called Scratch. Design/methodology/approach: The author completed an 18-month descriptive case study with 5 early adolescent participants. The research design included a…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Programming Languages, Social Media, Computer Software
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Hagge, Julia – Gifted Child Today, 2017
Digital technology offers new possibilities for children to play, express themselves, learn, and communicate. A recent development in online practice is a shift toward youth engaged in computer programming online communities. Programming is argued to be the new literacy of the millennium. In this article, I examine the use of Scratch, an online…
Descriptors: Programming, Technological Literacy, Early Adolescents, Academically Gifted