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Camilo Vieira; J. Chiu; B. Velasquez – Computer Science Education, 2024
Background and Context: Computational thinking (CT) is a fundamental skill and a new form of literacy that everyone should develop to participate in civic society. Sequencing and algorithmic thinking are at the core of CT. This study looked into how young children enrolled in a kindergarten in Colombia develop CT skills. Objective: This paper aims…
Descriptors: Children, Algorithms, Mental Computation, Foreign Countries
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Kalliopi Aslanoglou; Nikolaos C. Zygouris; Stella Tsermentseli; Eleftheria Beazidou; Apostolos Xenakis – Pedagogical Research, 2025
The present pilot study outlines findings from a study that evaluated the efficacy of educational robots in enhancing children's cognitive skills and historical knowledge. Applying LEGO® Wedo 2.0, the study focused on typically developing nine-year-old students in a K-12 public school setting. The hypothesis posited that students using robotics…
Descriptors: Robotics, Problem Solving, Skill Development, History Instruction
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Silvis, Deborah; Lee, Victor R.; Clarke-Midura, Jody; Shumway, Jessica F. – Information and Learning Sciences, 2022
Purpose: Much remains unknown about how young children orient to computational objects and how we as learning scientists can orient to young children as computational thinkers. While some research exists on how children learn programming, very little has been written about how they learn the technical skills needed to operate technologies or to…
Descriptors: Programming, Coding, Kindergarten, Robotics
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Brainin, Einat; Shamir, Adina; Eden, Sigal – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2022
The study's purpose was to examine the contribution of a programmable robot to an intervention program for promoting spatial ability (spatial relations, visual-memory, mental rotation) of preschool children. Eighty-four participants were randomly assigned to three intervention groups: programmable-robot-based intervention, traditional…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Robotics, Programming
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Theodosios Sapounidis; Sophia Rapti; Julie Vaiopoulou – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2025
Communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity are regarded as core skills of the twenty-first century required to succeed in life and working frameworks. Meanwhile, new technologies have entered educational settings to facilitate children's development of competencies. During the last decade, several studies have been conducted…
Descriptors: Robotics, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Kindergarten
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Sun, Lihui; Zhou, Danhua – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: As one of the mainstream forms of programming education, educational robotics (ER) have been a crucial way to develop K-12 students' programming ability. Objectives: The purpose of this study is to clarify the content of programming ability, to verify the effectiveness of ER as a teaching method to improve students' programming…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Robotics, Programming
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Ana Lúcia Bento Miguens; João Manuel Nunes Piedade; Rui Jorge Bernardes dos Santos; Tiago Lopes Oliva – Educational Media International, 2024
This research arises within the scope of the Postgraduate Course of Specialization in Technologies and Robotics in Elementary School. Its aim is to analyze the impact of robotics and programming on the motivation and involvement of students in the development of computational thinking, in the learning of mathematical concepts. The study was…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Computation, Thinking Skills, Skill Development
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Francesco C. Ugolini; Panagiotis Kakavas – Research on Education and Media, 2024
This study consists of a 17-year (2006-2021) systematic literature review on the effective instructional strategies for developing Computational Thinking (CT) in primary school students (K-5). The aim of this paper is to identify instructional strategies that have been implemented and evaluated by means of a pre- and post-test, with the aim of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students
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Michael Graffin; Rachel Sheffield; Rekha Koul – Journal for STEM Education Research, 2022
The international "FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL): Challenge" is a popular educational robotics and STEM competition designed to promote primary and early high school students' STEM interests and careers, and twenty-first century skill development. The "FLL Challenge" currently involves over 318,000 students (aged 9-16 years) in…
Descriptors: Robotics, Competition, STEM Education, Student Attitudes
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Pliasa, Sofia; Fachantidis, Nikolaos – Themes in eLearning, 2019
Independent studies in various settings indicate that interventions with Socially Assistive Robots, might help children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to participate in activities that demand cooperation and communication skills. The purpose of this article is to present the benefits of robot assisted interventions in the development of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Robotics, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Ugur-Erdogmus, Feray – Participatory Educational Research, 2021
Robotic education is a popular topic in recent years. There are robotic education courses from pre-K to K-12 and these courses claim that they support STEM education. However, the teacher's perception of these activities and needs for this education is the missing part of the chain. The aim of this study to find out the perceptions and suggestions…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Keane, Therese; Chalmers, Christina; Boden, Marie; Williams, Monica – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2019
This research is part of a larger three-year study investigating the impact of humanoid robots on students' learning and engagement. In this case study, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students worked with a humanoid robot to develop, in parallel, both their programming skills and their understanding of the traditional Narungga language and culture.…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Indigenous Populations, Learner Engagement, Robotics
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Angeli, Charoula M.; Makridou, Eria – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2018
The paper examines how computational thinking can be taught to young children with the use of educational robotics using the kit LEGO WeDo. Computational thinking was measured in terms of four sub-skills, namely, sequencing, correspondence between actions and instructions, debugging, and flow of control. Students were assigned to an experimental…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Grade 3, Young Children, Elementary School Students
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The aim of the 2018 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) conference was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education