{"id":6301,"date":"2022-08-25T18:09:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T18:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=6301"},"modified":"2022-08-25T18:09:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T18:09:15","slug":"get-a-very-early-start-on-teaching-coding-skills-pilot-study-suggests-trying-robotic-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2022\/08\/25\/get-a-very-early-start-on-teaching-coding-skills-pilot-study-suggests-trying-robotic-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"Get a Very Early Start on Teaching Coding Skills. Pilot Study Suggests Trying Robotic Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From: Education Week |<br>by: Lauraine Langreo &#8211; June 24, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"570\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image.png 840w, https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-768x521.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Students work in a group to program a Bee-Bot while in their summer school class at Goliad Elementary School in Odessa, Texas.<br>Jacob Ford\/Odessa American via AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Using age-appropriate coding toys has a significant, positive impact on preschoolers\u2019 math abilities, according to the findings of a pilot study that will be discussed at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/technology\/screen-time-sel-accelerated-learning-and-more-5-stories-to-read-before-iste-2022\/2022\/06\">2022 International Society for Technology in Education conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because much of the existing research on the benefits of coding on children\u2019s development were focused on elementary-age kids, Eastern Connecticut State University professor Sudha Swaminathan decided to look into how coding impacts younger children\u2019s development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The small pilot study was structured as a pre- and post-assessment with coding activities as intervention. Six 4- and 5-year-olds who attend the university\u2019s Center for Early Childhood Education played with a Bee-Bot, a robotic toy shaped like a bumblebee with forward, backward, left, and right arrow buttons, as well as \u201cgo\u201d and \u201cclear\u201d buttons, on its back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Education Week |by: Lauraine Langreo &#8211; June 24, 2022 Using age-appropriate coding toys has a significant, positive impact on preschoolers\u2019 math abilities, according to the findings of a pilot study that will be discussed at the 2022 International Society &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2022\/08\/25\/get-a-very-early-start-on-teaching-coding-skills-pilot-study-suggests-trying-robotic-toys\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6303,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6301\/revisions\/6303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}