Tinkercademy: Early Childhood Computer Science Education Observations from Working with Early Childhood Classrooms in the U.S. and Singapore
August 31, 2017
“Coding is the new literacy”
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“Back at university, I took a class called “Tech Tools for Learning” with Dr. Bers. The class was very much rooted in experiential learning, and so we went into a couple of schools to deliver programming lessons to kindergarteners and first-graders with a screen-free programmable robot known as KIBO. Initially, I was unsure of how young kids would grasp concepts like sequencing and conditionals. But sure enough, after some tries, they got it. At the time, I remember thinking about how important it would be to bring these sorts of curriculums to many more early childhood classrooms in the U.S.”
